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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Namslau (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 70 × 49 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT NAMSLAV UBER FUNFZIG PFENNIGE NAMSLAV 17. DEZB. 1920 DER MAGISTRAT GRASS BARTH & COMP. W. FRIEDRICH BRESLAU |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse with a single central vignette consisting of a dark octagonal cartouche with scroll corner ornaments and radiating guilloche rays, enclosing the bold red denomination numeral '50'. A red serial number prefixed by 'No' is printed directly below the cartouche in large characters. |
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Namslau — now Namysłów in southwestern Poland — was a small Lower Silesian market town of modest economic weight, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1920 reflects the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the entire German municipal system in the years following the First World War. Thousands of German towns did the same, but the sheer volume of surviving Namslau material suggests these notes were largely collected rather than spent.
Grass, Barth & Comp., operating under the W. Friedrich imprint in Breslau, handled a substantial share of Lower Silesian notgeld production during this period — a regional printer feeding regional demand.