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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck, Saxe-Meiningen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream and green notgeld printed in black and green on a tan ground, enclosed within a decorative black scrollwork border. The denomination numeral '50' appears in green at each corner, while the issuer's name 'Stadt Pößneck' is set in Gothic script at the top centre above the large bold blackletter legend 'Fünfzig Pfennige' occupying the central field. Below the denomination text, two facsimile signatures appear beneath the printed authority lines 'Der Magistrat' and 'Der Gemeinderat', executed over a fine guilloche underprint in green and tan. |
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| Reverse lettering | Poßneck Fünfzig Pfennige 50 |
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Pößneck's 1919 emergency currency was a direct response to the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued Germany following the First World War. Municipal authorities across the country were authorized — effectively pushed — into printing their own fractional notes when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough coinage to keep local commerce moving. Pößneck, a small textile-industry town in what was then Saxe-Meiningen, was one of hundreds of German municipalities to do exactly that.
The DeNG catalogue suffix "c" indicates a recognized variety within the P30 series, likely distinguished by a printing or paper difference from the "a" and "b" variants — worth confirming against known plating data before grading.