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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Friesack, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kurfürst Friedrich I. von Brandenburg Fünfzig Pfennig Friesack / Mark im November 1921 Der Magistrat: Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach der vom Magistrat erlassenen Aufforderung eingelöst ist. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a full-colour lithographic rural vignette captioned 'Mühlenberg', showing a traditional post windmill set on a hill amid trees and cottages, with a travelling figure on a path in the foreground. The scenic vignette is enclosed within a bold red and black ornamental border with denomination numerals '50' at each corner. A serial number panel in red is printed along the lower margin. |
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Friesack is a small Brandenburg town whose Notgeld issues from 1921 fall squarely within the second wave of German municipal emergency money — printed not from genuine monetary necessity by that point, but largely to satisfy collector demand that had made series-issue Notgeld a minor revenue stream for cash-strapped local administrations. The town issued several denominations simultaneously, and the 50 Pfennig was the workhorse of the set.
Printed on thin paper stock typical of small-run provincial printers, these see significant foxing and edge toning in circulated survivors.