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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neidenburg (City of Neidenburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NEIDENBURG, O./PR. 50 PFENNIG Dieser Stadtgeldschein wurde herausgegeben zur Erinnerung an den 11. Juli 1920, den Tag des gewaltigen Bekenntnisses zum Deutschtum. Neidenburg, O./Pr. den 22. September 1920. Der Magistrat Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufforderung FLEMMING - WISKOTT A.G. GLOGAU |
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| Reverse lettering | Arbeit ist des Bürgers Zierde Segen ist der Mühe Preis 50 |
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Neidenburg — now Nidzica in northeastern Poland — was firmly German territory in 1920, sitting in the East Prussian borderlands that had just survived the chaos of the Masurian plebiscite period. This Notgeld issue was part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after the war, driven by a shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coinage rather than any local financial crisis.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling contracts for dozens of municipalities across Prussia. The Glogau listing as "Poland" in modern catalogs reflects the city's postwar fate — it became Głogów after 1945 — but in 1920 it was unambiguously German Silesia.