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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Naumburg an der Saale (City of Naumburg an der Saale) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Lighter-ground reverse printed in black and red, with a large central rectangular vignette containing a bold black silhouette of a medieval warrior bearing sword and lance, a church steeple visible in shadow at the base. The denomination '50' appears in red in each of the four corners within scallop-bordered cartouches, and two blocks of Gothic-script verse text are set to the left and right of the central vignette. '50 Pfennig' in large Gothic lettering occupies the lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Pfennig Auf der ganzen Vogelwies' sah man nichts als Schwert und Spieß an die Hunderttausend |
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Naumburg an der Saale was among hundreds of German municipalities that began issuing Notgeld in earnest after 1919, when chronic small-change shortages — partly caused by hoarding of metal coinage and the Reichsbank's inability to keep denominations in circulation — forced local governments to print their own. The 50 Pfennig denomination was the workhorse of this system, used for everyday transactions that federal currency simply couldn't service.
A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu printed for numerous municipal clients across this period, a small Bavarian firm that found steady business in the Notgeld boom. Most issues from this printer are competently produced but not among the more elaborately designed collector pieces the era generated.