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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Friedeberg in der Neumark (City of Friedeberg in der Neumark) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 100 × 54 mm |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green letterpress design on cream paper with a dense repeating floral and lozenge guilloche border surrounding the entire field. The four corners each carry an identical heraldic shield of the city of Friedeberg bearing towers and a lily device. A central oval cartouche, framed by radiating engine-turned lathe-work, encloses a four-line verse in roman type. |
| Reverse lettering | Ältestes bewahrt mit Treue, Freundlich aufgefasstes Neue, Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke; Nun, man kommt wohl eine Strecke! |
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Friedeberg in der Neumark — today Strzelce Krajeńskie in western Poland — issued this Notgeld piece during the acute small-change famine that gripped Germany in 1920, when metal coins had largely vanished from circulation and the Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand at the municipal level. Thousands of German towns printed their own fractional notes during this period, with Selmar Bayer in Berlin supplying a substantial share of the production runs for smaller Prussian municipalities.
The printer relationship is worth noting: Bayer handled volume municipal work, not prestige commissions, so execution across the series tends toward the competent rather than the elaborate.