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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neurode (City of Neurode), Lower Silesia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse with a light blue guilloche-style radiating background; a central oval vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of the Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) of Neurode as it appeared in 1839, with townspeople in the square and a church steeple rising above the roofline. The vignette is framed by interlaced golden wheat-sheaf garlands tied with green ribbons, flanked at upper corners by two yellow roundels — the left bearing crossed mining hammers, the right a stylised emblem — while the city arms (Stadtwappen) appear in a laurel wreath at bottom centre. The year '1921' is printed twice in large numerals at lower left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | Altes Rathaus 1839. Stadtwappen. 1921. 1921. |
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Neurode was a small coal-mining town in Lower Silesia — today Nowa Ruda in Poland — and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the early Weimar Republic. The federal government had effectively stopped supplying adequate fractional coinage, and local authorities filled the gap themselves. Most of these issues were printed in modest runs by regional printers and circulated only within the issuing community.
The DeNG reference suggests this is one of two known varieties within the series, distinguished likely by minor typographic or color differences. Neurode's issues are not among the rarer Silesian Notgeld, but the region's subsequent history — absorbed into Poland after 1945 — gives even routine pieces a certain archival weight that purely German municipal notes lack.