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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinderat Prien (Market Town of Prien am Chiemsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a rich multi-colour palette of olive-grey, blue, ochre, and red. The left foreground is occupied by a full-length figure of a woman in elaborate traditional Bavarian Tracht, her richly embroidered apron and blue skirt rendered in fine detail. Behind her stretches a panoramic landscape vignette of Fraueninsel on the Chiemsee, with the monastery church tower visible across the water and the Alpine foothills in the distance. A scroll cartouche in the lower right bears the denomination and place name in Gothic script, with the engraver's name inscribed at the bottom centre of the image field. |
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| Signature(s) | Weinhard (1. Bürgermeister) |
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| Comments |
Prien am Chiemsee issued this Notgeld in 1920 as part of the broader small-change shortage that paralyzed German commerce in the post-WWI inflation period, when coin metal was worth more than face value and hoarding stripped pfennig denominations from circulation entirely. The Gemeinderat — the municipal council, not a bank — had the legal authority under wartime and transitional emergency provisions to authorize local scrip, with Bürgermeister Weinhard's signature lending it official standing.
Schob-Druck was a Munich trade printer, not a specialist security house, and Heinsörfel's engraving credit in the margins suggests the artwork was commissioned separately. The DeNG reference covers three known variants (1074.1–3), differentiated by minor printing details.