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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Freiburg in Schlesien (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rich polychrome tones of red-brown, green, and ochre, with an Art Nouveau-inspired floral border of lily-of-the-valley motifs framing the entire note. The central vignette, titled 'ALTE BURG – BURGHOF' in capital lettering along the upper border, presents a colourful painted scene of the ruined castle courtyard with Gothic archways, trees in full foliage, and old cannon in the foreground. The denomination '50' appears in red within yellow panels at both lower corners, and a German proverb is inscribed in bold lettering along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | ALTE BURG - BURGHOF. Wer lange sitzt muß rosten. 50 |
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Freiburg in Schlesien was a small industrial town in Lower Silesia, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that swept German municipalities in 1921 — the Reichsbank simply could not produce enough fractional coinage to keep local commerce moving. The Magistrat turned to Grube & Schneider, a local firm, rather than one of the large specialist printers handling Notgeld for bigger cities. That decision kept costs down but also kept quality modest.
The town is now Świebodzice, absorbed into postwar Poland following the 1945 border revision that resettled virtually the entire German-speaking population.