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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Landgemeinde Brockau (Municipality of Brockau, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | LANDGEMEINDE BROCKAU 50 50 AUF DIESEN GUTSCHEIN ZAHLT DIE GEMEINDE-KASSE BROCKAU DEM EINLIEFERER FÜNFZIG PFENNIG BROCKAU, AM 22. OKT. 1920. DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND: GÜLTIG BIS 1 MONAT NACH AUFRUF IN DER BROCKAUER ZEITUNG. |
| Reverse description | Printed in green and black on cream paper, the reverse carries an all-over underprint of repeated small numeral 50 across the entire field. At centre, a large circular green vignette provides the background for a bold black vignette of a winged wheel — the heraldic emblem of transport or civic industry — rendered in a stylised letterpress design. A serial number is printed in large bold type at the bottom centre, with the printer's monogram HAL below it. |
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Brockau was a small agricultural commune on the southeastern edge of Breslau — absorbed into the city entirely in 1928. This note dates from the peak of Germany's municipal Notgeld wave, when hundreds of local authorities printed their own small-denomination scrip to address the chronic shortage of coin that had been worsening since 1914. The Reichsbank simply couldn't keep low-value metal currency in circulation; it was hoarded or melted almost immediately.
Landgemeinde issues from villages this size were typically printed in short runs by local job printers, often on whatever stock was available. Survival rates vary sharply — some were redeemed in bulk and pulped, others were never turned in at all.