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50 Pfennigs Max and Moritz Series
| Issuer | Flecken Wiedensahl (Town of Wiedensahl, Prussian province of Hanover) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Colour vignette after Wilhelm Busch illustrating a scene from Max und Moritz: the baker chases the two boys and his dog through his shop, enclosed within a floral border of alternating red berries and green leaves. |
| Reverse lettering | Und der Meister Bäcker schrie: "Ach herrjeh! da laufen sie!" |
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Wiedensahl is a village best known as the birthplace of Wilhelm Busch, the 19th-century cartoonist whose illustrated stories of Max and Moritz — two incorrigible boys who torment their neighbors — directly inspired the later creation of the Katzenjammer Kids. The town leaned into that association when issuing its notgeld, producing a series themed around Busch's characters at a moment when German municipalities were competing to make their emergency currency collectible by design.
The notgeld boom of 1921–1922 turned small-town scrip into a philatelic side industry. Wiedensahl knew exactly what it was doing.