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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Finsterwalde, City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and ochre-yellow, with an ornate guilloche underprint forming a decorative border framing the entire note. A panoramic vignette of the Finsterwalde townscape occupies the central register, rendered in fine letterpress line engraving. The denomination "50 Pfennig" appears in numerals at the upper left and right corners, with the value spelled out in Gothic blackletter script as "Fünfzig Pfennig" across the upper portion; flanking side panels carry redemption and validity clauses in German text, and the note is dated "Finsterwalde, den 5. Dezember 1919" below the vignette, accompanied by two facsimile signatures for the Magistrat (Bürgermeister) and the Stadtverordnetenversammlung (Stadtverordnetenvorsteher). |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Finsterwalde N./L. über * Fünfzig Pfennig * Vorstehenden Betrag zahlt unsere Stadthaupt-kasse d. Einlieferer dies. Scheines Gültigkeit bis 1 Monat nach erfolgtem Widerruf d. ortsübliche Bekanntmachung Finsterwalde, den 5. Dezember 1919. Der Magistrat Bürgermeister. Die Stadtverordnetenversammlung. Stadtverordnetenvorsteher. SELMAR BAYER, BERLIN SO. 36 |
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Finsterwalde's 1919 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as central coin supplies collapsed under postwar economic strain. The Reichsbank had effectively lost control of small-denomination circulation, forcing thousands of towns to commission their own notes — Finsterwalde among them.
Selmar Bayer was a mid-tier Berlin commercial printer who handled a substantial volume of Notgeld work during this period, rarely producing anything technically distinguished but reliably competent. The 100 × 56 mm format was a Bayer house preference for the smaller pfennig denominations.