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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Aschersleben (City of Aschersleben) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pf Fünfzig Pfennige zahlbar bei der Stadtkasse der Stadt Aschersleben Gültig bis 31. März 1922 Aschersleben, den 5. März 1920 DER MAGISTRAT Diese dritte Serie ist in fünf Farben erschienen BUHE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in red and dark brown letterpress, with a central architectural vignette of the Aschersleben Rathaus (town hall) set against a dark sky, surmounted by the year '1920' within a pointed cartouche. Flanking the building are two decorative cornucopiae filled with roses, while a scrolled ribbon banner beneath the vignette carries the town name 'Aschersleben' in Gothic lettering. The denomination '50 Pf' appears in each upper corner against a red crosshatched background. |
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Aschersleben is one of the older towns in the Harz foothills, but this note has nothing to do with civic pride — it exists because the postwar coin shortage made small change practically impossible to conduct commerce with. The 1920 Kleingeldersatz wave hit hundreds of German municipalities simultaneously, and Aschersleben's Stadtkasse responded with this Buhe-printed issue rather than relying on the makeshift cardboard and linen Notgeld some smaller communities were still circulating.
The DeNG reference placing this as 50.1 suggests at least one variant exists within the series — likely a color or paper difference worth confirming against a physical example before cataloging.