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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Nörenberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The reverse face carries a serial number at the top within an ornate blue oval frame composed of interlaced foliate and acanthus scrollwork, with circular corner medallions each bearing the numeral '50'. The central text block, printed in Fraktur script, states the note's validity clause and is dated Nörenberg i. Pom., den 11. Mai 1920, followed by the issuing authority line 'Der Magistrat' and a manuscript facsimile signature. The overall underprint consists of a fine geometric lattice pattern in pale blue. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld Fünfzig Pfennig MAGISTRAT DER STADT NÖRENBERG zahlt die städtische Sparkasse in Nörenberg ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. R. DULCE GLAUCHAU |
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Nörenberg — now Ińsko in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town with a population well under two thousand when this note was issued. The acute small-change shortage that swept Germany after World War One forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency currency, Notgeld, and Nörenberg was no exception. R. Dulce of Glauchau was one of the minor commercial printers who picked up steady work supplying these runs to provincial administrations that lacked any connection to major printing houses.
Glauchau is in Saxony — roughly 600 kilometers from Nörenberg — a reminder that local issuing authority had nothing to do with local production.