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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Berga (Elster), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Berga (E). Gutschein Fünfzig Pfennig Wert Fünfzig Pfennig. Berga (Elster) 22. Juni 1920. Der Stadtgemeindevorstand Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1922. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kämst von Nord / Wandrer bist Kämst von Süden am rechten Ort! 50 ··BERGA-ELSTER·· |
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Berga an der Elster is a small town in what was then the Province of Saxony, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos following Germany's defeat in 1918. The Otto Henning A.G. press in nearby Greiz handled a considerable volume of regional Notgeld commissions during this period, making them one of the more prolific small-format printers of the Thuringian issues.
The near-square format is characteristic of the early 1920 wave of municipal issues, before later series trended toward more elongated proportions.