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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nörenberg (City of Nörenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a decorative letterpress style with an elaborate baroque-inspired scrollwork border enclosing an oval cartouche at centre. Within the cartouche, the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is inscribed in Gothic script above the payment text, flanked by two columns of validity clauses in small print; a red heraldic eagle vignette is placed at the centre of the cartouche. The numeral '50' appears in a circular medallion at top centre and is repeated in squared frames at lower left and lower right, with the issuing authority line 'Nörenberg, den 1. Juni 1920 — Der Magistrat:' and a manuscript signature of the mayor running along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | NÖRENBERG AM ENZIGSEE DER GROSSE. 50 ROBERT KOCH Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce, Glauchau i. Sa. |
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Nörenberg — now Ińsko, in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian town issuing notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities struggling with the postwar small-change shortage. The Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, Saxony printed for numerous provincial issuers during this period, and the relationship here is straightforwardly commercial: a local council contracting out to a regional printer with an established notgeld workflow.
The designer credit to Robert Koch is worth noting — whether a local official, a contracted commercial artist, or someone at the Glauchau press itself is not firmly documented.