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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Staßfurt (City of Staßfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by an ornate border with blue trefoil and quatrefoil corner ornaments and crenellated side pilasters bearing the denomination '50 Pfg' in Gothic script. At centre, the town arms of Staßfurt are rendered as a baroque cartouche with scrollwork, enclosing a standing medieval figure in costume holding crossed implements. The issuer's name 'Stadt Staßfurt' appears in a stippled header panel in decorative blackletter, with the validity notice 'Drei Monate nach Bekanntmachung Ungültig' inscribed in the lower panel, and the printer's imprint 'Druck Himmer, Augsburg' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Staßfurt. 50 Pfg Drei Monate nach Bekanntmachung Ungültig DRUCK · HIMMER, AUGSBURG. |
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Staßfurt, in the Prussian province of Saxony, was the birthplace of the modern potash mining industry — the first commercial potash mine opened there in 1861 — and the town's notgeld issues of the early 1920s reflect that industrial identity directly. This 50 Pfennig piece belongs to the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after postwar coin shortages left small-denomination transactions nearly impossible.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a prolific notgeld printer during this period, producing issues for dozens of municipalities across Bavaria and beyond. Their work on these small civic commissions was competent and consistent, if rarely distinguished.