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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Könnern (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | No. 19121 50 STADT KÖNNERN 50 Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig DER MAGISTRAT Könnern, 19. April 1920 Bürgermeister. Beigeordneter. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Rathaus zu Könnern Alle Leute in der Welt, streben nur nach Gut und Geld, Und wenn Sie es erwerben, legen sie sich hin und sterben. |
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Könnern is a small market town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the first major wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as small-denomination imperial coinage vanished entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply exhausted by wartime production demands. Thousands of German municipalities issued their own paper in this period, each with varying degrees of artistic ambition and print quality.
The Magistrat series from Könnern is unremarkable within the broader Notgeld flood — no known printing errors, no documented second issues, no recalled varieties.