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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Herrschaft Klenka (Estate of Klenka) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in pale ochre on plain cream paper, the reverse carries a spare typographic layout with the denomination numeral '50' at each corner and 'Pfennige' centred along the top and bottom edges, all framed by vertical column rules at left and right. The issuer name 'Herrschaft Klenka' is set in Fraktur script at the centre of the field. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennige 50 Herrschaft Klenka 50 Pfennige 50 |
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Herrschaft Klenka was a landed estate in Bohemia, and like hundreds of similar private entities across the collapsing Habsburg successor states in 1919, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to fill the coin vacuum left by wartime hoarding and monetary disintegration. Estate-issued Notgeld of this type carried an official stamp in place of any formal banking guarantee, making the issuing authority's standing in the local community the only real backing.
Estate-level issuers are among the rarest Notgeld categories. Most circulated within a single village or among the estate's own workers and tenants, which is precisely why survival rates are low.