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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neuhaldensleben, City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Grey-toned note with a guilloche wave underprint and matching decorative border with scrollwork corner devices. The issuance date and place of origin appear at the top, above two columns listing the names of the participating local merchants and firms that guaranteed redemption, with a large lightly printed '50 PFENNIG' numeral watermark-style overprint spanning the centre field. |
| Reverse lettering | NEUHALDENSLEBEN, den 1. August 1919 WILH. BALLEIER O. BEHRENDT PAUL BERGER M. BERGMANN J. BUSSE L. FREDE ERNST FRITZ PAUL GÖHRING HERM. HÜBENER HERM. JENRICH ERNST KUNSTLER WILH. LOGES PAUL MATZEJEK ALBERT ROSENTHAL A. RÜCKMANN ERICH SCHMÄLBRUCH WILH. SCHNEIDER FRITZ SENNE AUG. WEINREICH E. ZABEL PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG |
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Neuhaldensleben's 1919 Pfennig issues belong to the first great wave of German municipal emergency money — Notgeld printed to address a crippling shortage of small-denomination coinage that the central government had neither the metal nor the logistical capacity to remedy after the war. J. C. König & Ebhardt, a Hannover-based commercial printer, handled a substantial volume of Notgeld contracts during this period, working across multiple municipalities simultaneously, which means the production quality here is competent but thoroughly unsentimental.
Neuhaldensleben itself was a modest market town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its issues generated no particular collector controversy — no known misprints, no reissue variants of note.