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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Johannisburg, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown intaglio printing on an olive guilloche underprint, with a decorative border of oak leaves and acorns framing the note. The denomination appears at left alongside the city coat of arms, while the central field carries the full issuing text in period German typeface. A red serial number runs across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50P Die Stadt Johannisburg Ostpr. gab dieses Stadtgeld heraus Zur Erinnerung an die deutsche Abstimmung am 11. Juli 1920. Johannisburg Ostpr. den 1. Oktober 1920. Der Magistrat (Signature) Dieser Schein verliert 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit FLEMMING - WISKOTT A. - G. GLOGAU (Translation: 50P The city of Johannisburg East Prussia gave this city money out as a reminder of the German vote on July 11, 1920. Johannisburg East Prussia, October 1st, 1920. The Magistrate (Signature) This note loses its validity 1 month after public announcement of redemption FLEMMING - WISKOTT A. - G. GLOGAU) |
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Glogau — now Głogów in western Poland — was still firmly within Germany's Silesian heartland when Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott printed this note in 1920, the firm having merged their established map and fine-printing operations decades earlier. The Johannisburg issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany as postwar coin shortages made small change nearly impossible to obtain. Johannisburg itself, today Pisz in the Warmian-Masurian region of Poland, sat in East Prussia — a territory that had just voted overwhelmingly to remain German in the July 1920 plebiscite, held under Allied supervision while this very note was in circulation.