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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stecklenberg (Municipality of Stecklenberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with denomination numeral '50' in hatched style set in corner boxes at upper left and upper right within a ruled border. The central text panel carries the issue title in Gothic script above a vignette of stone ruins overgrown with vegetation. Flanking the central vignette at the lower corners are two heraldic shields: the left inscribed 'HOLEM' and the right inscribed 'Arneburg', each bearing a cross-hatched field. Validity and issuing authority inscriptions appear in two columns above the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress note dominated by a scenic vignette occupying nearly the full face, rendered in fine line engraving after a period topographical view and showing the ruined walls of Stecklenburg castle with trees to the left and two figures in the foreground. The denomination numeral '50' is set within a circle in the upper right corner outside the vignette frame. Below the vignette, a caption in italic type identifies the subject and its approximate date. |
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Stecklenberg is a small village in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the massive wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as the Reichsbank failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. Coins were being hoarded or melted — even modest pfennig pieces had disappeared by the early 1920s — forcing thousands of towns, no matter how minor, to print their own fractional scrip.
Stecklenberg's issue is among the more obscure of the Harz region notgeld, produced in quantities small enough that surviving examples turn up infrequently in specialized German notgeld collections.