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50 Pfennig
| Uitgever | Stadt Torgau (City of Torgau) |
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| Jaar | 1921 |
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| Valuta | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Notgeld der Stadt Torgau A.D. 1921 Gutschein für Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Schein verliert 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit. Der Magistrat. Torgau, d. 10. Februar 1921. |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is dominated by a large central oval vignette on a blue-grey ground, enclosing a depiction of a fully armoured knight on horseback carrying a lance with pennant, rendered in a medieval heraldic style. The denomination numeral '50' is repeated in each of the four corners in bold black type, and small diamond-shaped ornamental devices flank the oval at its lateral extremities. A circular Gothic legend surrounds the oval vignette, and the date '1542' appears at the base of the composition. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Torgau's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second and more commercially driven wave of German emergency money — by 1921 the acute coin shortage of 1917–19 had eased somewhat, and many municipalities were producing Notgeld primarily as collector fodder, knowing philatelically minded buyers would absorb the print run before much of it reached a cashier's till. Whether Torgau's series falls into that category or reflected genuine local liquidity needs is worth considering when assessing actual circulation wear.
The town sits on the Elbe roughly midway between Leipzig and Berlin — best known internationally as the April 1945 meeting point of American and Soviet forces, an event still two decades away when this note was printed.