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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bautzen (City of Bautzen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld printed in dark brown on green paper, with a decorative double-rule border enclosing the text. The denomination '50' appears in a central dark oval cartouche flanked by the words 'FÜNFZIG' and 'PFENNIG' in bold Gothic lettering. Below, a validity clause states the note is redeemable only within the Bezirk der Stadt Bautzen, dated 1. Mai 1920, with the facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADTGEMEINDE BAUTZEN über FÜNFZIG 50 PFENNIG DIE STADT BAUTZEN HAFTET FÜR EINLÖSUNG NUR GÜLTIG IM BEZIRK DER STADT BAUTZEN 1. MAI 1920 Oberbürgermeister |
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Bautzen's 1920 notgeld issue came out of the same administrative chaos that pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own small-denomination emergency money after the war. The Reichsbank simply couldn't supply enough coin, and 50 Pfennig pieces had all but vanished from daily commerce by 1919–1920. Johannes Pässler in Dresden-Neustadt was a regional commercial printer — not a specialist security firm — which was entirely normal for municipal notgeld of this type and period.
Bautzen sits in Upper Lusatia, historically a center of Sorbian culture, which occasionally surfaces in the design choices of local notgeld from this region.