50 Pfennig Note, Aken/Elbe, Germany, 1921
date: label: date made
content: 1921
notes: label: Crowdsourcing
content: Transcribed by Smithsonian digital volunteers
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content: [[obverse text]]
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content: STAD AKEN/ELBE / SIGNETVM, BVRGENSIVM, VRBIS, AQVENSIS, FIDELIS, FILIAE, ECCLESIAE, MAGDE BURGENSIS / [[image]]crest of Stadt Aken. Under a high Gothic arch, between two pinned round towers with pointed roofs, on a square base stands a bishop with his right hand raised and fingers stretched out for oath, holding the crosier in his left hand. Near each of the towers is a small floating red and white shield with the head of the holy Mauritius. [[/image]] / DIESER SUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEIN GÜLTIG-KEIT 3 MONATE NACH BEKANNTMACHUNG. [[translation]] THIS VOUCHER LOSES 3 MONTHS AFTER NOTICE [[/translation]] / AKEN, I.OKTOBER 1921. DER MAGISTRAT: [[SIGNATURE]] / NO 447562
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content: [[reverse text]]
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content: 50 FÜNFZIG PFENNIG 50 / CÖTHENER TOR [[image]]tower of Köthen[[/image]] [[image]]anchor, and other symbols[[/image]] ELBTOR[[image]]tower of Elba[[/image]] / IN AKEN, HAT MAN EINST GESAGT, IS NIKS TO MAKEN! GOTT SEI'S GEKLAGT! DAS WORT GILT LANGE SCHON NICHT MEHR. / ES BLÜHN GEWERBE UND VERKEHR. DRUM HEISST ES JETZT VON AKEN : MIT DICK LETT SICK WAT MAKEN!
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content: [[translation]](In Plattdeutsch, not accurate but my best effort) In Aken people used to say, there's nothing to do! Alas! That hasn't been the case for a while. Business and traffic are blooming. That's why we now say in Aken : With all these people, let's do something! [[/translation]]
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony-Anhalt, Aken
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: NNC Transcription Center German Notgeld 01
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content: NNC German Notgeld
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anna Cote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.NU45833.05
label: catalog number
content: NU45833.05
label: accession number
content: 175975
label: serial number
content: 447562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: note
label: Object Name
content: notgeld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.1 cm x 9.6 cm x .01 cm; 2 25/32 in x 3 25/32 in x in