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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Liebenwerda (District Committee of Liebenwerda) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN KREIS LIEBENWERDA GÜLTIG BIS 1 MONAT NACH ERFOLGTEM AUFRUF IM LIEBENWERDAER KREISBLATT LIEBENWERDA, DEN 1.10.21 DER KREISAUSSCHUSS 50 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in black and violet, with a guilloche-patterned outer border and zigzag inner frame. The central vignette presents a silhouette scene in a bold woodcut-style illustrating the founding of Wahrenbrück in the time of Charlemagne, with figures rendered entirely in black silhouette against a lightly tinted architectural background; the town's heraldic shield appears at centre bottom of the vignette. Below the scene, a bold Gothic-script inscription names the issuing district authority, with the designer's name 'KARL BLOSSFELD' at lower left and the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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Liebenwerda's 1921 Notgeld series carries an unusual distinction: the designer credited is Karl Blossfeldt, the Berlin-based photographer and educator who would later achieve international recognition with his 1928 botanical photobook *Urformen der Kunst*. Whether his involvement here was a local commission or a personal connection to the district is unclear, but the Gummidruck (rubber-plate printing) process used by C. Ziehlke was a pragmatic wartime-era technique that lingered into the Notgeld boom precisely because it was cheap and locally executable.
The reference DeNG 1/2#800.1-1/6 suggests a set of six distinct pieces within this district issue — a scope typical of municipalities that treated their emergency currency as a modest revenue source through collector sales.