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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Suderode, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark-toned notgeld issued by the municipality of Bad Suderode in the Harz region, dated 13 May 1921. To the left, the denomination '50 Pf' appears in large numerals within a dotted oval frame, below which a red serial number is printed; at centre, a tall vignette of a standing female figure in flowing robes alludes to the spa's healing tradition. Two stanzas of verse in German Kurrent script run across the upper register beneath the 'SOLBAD' banner, with the issuing authority text and facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (Marquardt) occupying the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CALCIUM-TRINKKUREN Saalstein Bad Suderode Harz LOUIS KOCH-HALBERSTADT |
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Bad Suderode was a small spa town in the Harz region, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldscheine to address the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well into the early Weimar years. The Louis Koch firm in Halberstadt was a regional printer that handled notgeld contracts for numerous towns across the Harz and Saxony-Anhalt area — not one of the major Leipzig or Berlin houses, but competent and locally well-positioned for exactly this kind of volume work.
The DeNG reference suffix range 1a-7/10 indicates this falls within a dated series, suggesting multiple issue dates or varieties within the same denomination.