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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Naumburg an der Saale (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Printer | Hauck & Schwarz, Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue-grey ground with tan and red multicolour letterpress printing in the Jugendstil manner. The central vignette consists of the Naumburg civic arms — crossed keys and sword in red on a white shield — set within an elaborate golden acanthus cartouche flanked by stylised wheat-sheaf side panels. Denomination numerals '50' appear in red within hexagonal frames at left and right, and the issue date 'Ausgegeben i. 1920' is inscribed in the upper-left corner. The lower portion carries a two-column redemption text in German Fraktur script above a serial number and two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat. |
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| Reverse description | Cream ground with red and dark brown letterpress printing. Vertical decorative side borders in olive and black with stylised Gothic figure motifs frame a large central rectangular vignette rendered as a bold silhouette composition signed 'W. HEDE' in the upper-left corner: a teacher figure leads a group of children across a landscape, with a church steeple visible in the background under sweeping diagonal lines suggesting wind or flight. Below the vignette, a red-bordered panel carries a three-line verse in Fraktur. Denomination numerals '50' in red occupy all four corners. |
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Naumburg an der Saale was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency issuance during the Kleingeldenot — the small-change shortage that followed WWI and persisted well into the early Weimar period. The Magistrat's decision to commission Hauck & Schwarz, a printer based in the Allgäu rather than a major printing center, was typical of smaller towns drawing on whatever commercial capacity was available when the larger specialist firms were overwhelmed with similar commissions across the country.
Hauck & Schwarz produced notgeld for numerous municipalities during this period; their work is generally competent but regionally unremarkable. Designer W. Hede is otherwise unattested in the major notgeld literature.