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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neinstedt (Municipality of Neinstedt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted notgeld note enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of interlocking floral and circular rosette motifs, with the denomination numeral '50' printed in each corner. The central field carries a four-line verse in Gothic script followed by the large inscription 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Neinstedt' in bold calligraphic lettering. The lower portion bears the issue date 'Neinstedt, d. 1. Juli, 1921', a circular municipality stamp inscribed 'Fünfzig Pfennig', a validity clause to the left, and the manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorstand to the right; the printer's imprint 'Dreifarbendruck von Oscar Grupe, Quedlinburg' appears below the border. |
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| Reverse description | Vibrant multicolour vignette occupying the full central field, rendered in a painterly style and signed with the initials 'H.H.' in the lower right corner, presenting a panoramic landscape view of the Neinstedt Anstalten (charitable institutions) with red-roofed buildings, a tall church spire to the right, trees and a rural road in the foreground, and wooded hills beneath a clouded sky in the background. The surrounding border consists of green and brown panels with a repeating red dot-and-oval pattern, the denomination '50' placed in each corner. A caption panel at the foot reads 'Teilansicht der Neinst. Anstalten', and the place name 'Neinstedt a. H.' is lettered across the top border in stylised Gothic script. |
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Neinstedt is a small village in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is precisely what you'd expect from a minor rural municipality caught in the postwar small-change famine. The Reichsbank's coin shortage after 1919 pushed thousands of German towns and villages into commissioning their own emergency pfennig notes, and Oscar Grupe of nearby Quedlinburg was a natural choice — a regional printer serving precisely this market across the Harz area.
Whether this note ever circulated seriously or was printed partly for the Notgeld collector trade — active and voracious by 1921 — is the real question with issues at this scale.