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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Calbe an der Saale (City of Calbe an der Saale) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | In aller Welt regiert bislang der Schein!– NOTGELD der STADT CALBE a.d.S. 50 Pf. Gültig bis 4 Wochen nach öffentlichem Aufruf. Der Magistrat. Reihe A Der aus Papier nimmt diesen Platz jetzt ein. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central colour vignette of the Calbe town square, rendered in a detailed letterpress illustration: the Rathaus (town hall) occupies the left background, while a church with a red-tiled roof and pointed steeple rises at right, both framed by rows of leafy trees and a open cobbled square with a monument in the centre. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in large Gothic numerals in each corner against a dark border. Below the vignette, a four-line German verse in Fraktur script references the Rathaus and the Hexenturm, with the printer's imprint 'Walter Ochs & Co., Magdeburg.' at the foot. |
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Calbe an der Saale is a small industrial town on the Saale river in Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the post-WWI Notgeld wave that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922. Municipal authorities across the country were forced to print their own small-denomination scrip as the Reichsbank struggled to keep fractional coinage in circulation — coin metal had been stripped for the war effort, and the inflationary spiral that would eventually consume the Weimar economy was already accelerating.
Walter Ochs & Co. in Magdeburg handled a large volume of regional Notgeld commissions from towns throughout the Prussian Province of Saxony, which accounts for the consistent production quality across many issues from this area.