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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Herrnstadt (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with a stippled guilloche underprint in ochre and mauve, enclosed within a dark brown decorative border with oval corner cartouches each bearing the numeral '50'. The large denomination numeral '50' appears at top centre above the bold legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig', with the city arms of Herrnstadt as a pale watermark-style underprint at centre, below which appears the issuing authority inscription 'Der Magistrat der Stadt Herrnstadt'. Two manuscript signatures are present below the issuer name, with the serial number printed in red at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Pfennig Der Magistrat der Stadt Herrnstadt No. 014202 |
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Herrnstadt was a small Silesian market town — today Wąsosz in Poland — and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1919, its local Magistrat issued emergency Kleingeld to compensate for the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that followed the war. Carl Flemming A.G. in Glogau was the natural choice for this kind of regional contract work; the firm had deep roots in Silesian commercial printing and handled a substantial share of the notgeld output from that part of the province.
The reference suffix "c" within the Grabowski series indicates a variant, likely in paper stock or overprint color — worth confirming against the other known states before cataloging definitively.