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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Naumburg an der Saale (City of Naumburg an der Saale) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 90 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is richly printed in red, black, green, and gold, with the city arms of Naumburg — a crossed key and sword on a guilloche medallion — occupying the centre, flanked by decorative cherry branches bearing vivid red fruit, a motif alluding to the local Kirschfest (cherry festival). Denomination numerals '50' appear in hexagonal cartouches at left and right. The upper portion carries the title in blackletter script, with the issue date 'Ausgegeben i. 1920' in the upper-left corner, and a serial number and two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Dem Prokopen tät es scheinen |
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Naumburg an der Saale was one of thousands of German municipalities that issued Notgeld during the inflationary chaos following World War I, but the printing geography here is worth noting: the note was produced by Druckerei A. Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu — a small town in Bavaria near the Austrian border, far removed from Saxony-Anhalt where Naumburg sits. This was not unusual; several specialist Notgeld printers operated in southern Germany and took commissions from municipalities across the country, functioning essentially as mail-order issuers.
The 1920 date places this in the first major wave of municipal emergency currency, before hyperinflation proper took hold in 1921–1923.