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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Angerburg, Ostpreußen |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1571 · NOTGELD · DER · STADT · ANGERBURG · 1921 50 PFENNIG DIESER · SCHEIN · WIRD · UNGÜLTIG · VIERZEHN · TAGE · NACH · ABRUF · MAGISTRAT ANGERBURG OSTPR. DIESER · SCHEIN · WIRD · AUF · UNSERER · STADTKASSE · EINGELÖST · DRUCK: HARTUNG · HAMB. ENTW.: ARCHITEKT HANS PHILIPP |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black with red and green colour accents on a salmon-pink ground, bounded by a red zigzag-perforated border. A detailed architectural vignette of the Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) of Angerburg — a two-storey baroque-style civic building with a red-tiled roof, flanked by trees — fills the lower two-thirds of the field. The denomination '50 PF.' is repeated in large decorative script in the upper left and upper right corners. The header legend in bold gothic lettering reads '1571 · JUBILÆUMSAUSGABE · 1921 / ZUR · 350 · JÆHRIG · STADTFEIER', identifying this note as a jubilee issue for the 350th anniversary of the city's founding. The inscription 'ALTES · RATHAUS' appears in red to the right of the vignette, and the artist's monogram 'HJP '21' is visible at the lower left of the illustration. |
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Angerburg was a small administrative district in East Prussia — the kind of municipality that routinely issued its own emergency currency during the postwar inflationary period when Reichsbank notes of small denomination were either hoarded or simply unavailable. These Magistrat-issued Notgeld pieces filled genuine gaps in daily commerce, not as a speculative printing exercise but out of practical necessity.
Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a substantial volume of provincial Notgeld commissions in this period, and the designer credit to Hans Philipp is an unusually specific attribution for a local issue of this type.