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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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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Dark-ground letterpress Notgeld note with a central oval cartouche enclosing the city arms of Naumburg — a crossed key and sword in red on a scrollwork ground — flanked by two hexagonal denomination panels bearing the numeral '50' in red. The title inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Naumburg a. Saale' arches across the upper portion in bold Gothic lettering, with the issue date 'Ausgegeben 1920' in the upper left. A two-line validity text in German script fills the lower register, accompanied by a serial number at lower left and two facsimile magistrate signatures at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig Dem Prokopen tat es scheinen Kirschen kaufte er den Kleinen WALTER HEGE |
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Walter Hege is better known as a photographer — specifically for his landmark 1920s documentation of Naumburg Cathedral's medieval choir screens and sculptural program, work that brought him considerable academic recognition. His involvement in designing municipal Notgeld the same year he was beginning that photographic project is an odd footnote to an otherwise art-historical career.
J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu was a specialist Notgeld printer who handled commissions from municipalities across Germany during the 1919–1922 emergency currency period. The volume of small-denomination notes flowing through such regional printers was enormous, and quality control varied considerably across runs.