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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Burg an der Wupper (City of Burg an der Wupper) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Burg a.d. Wupper BURG B.M. SIEGEL ET FREIHEIT Burg a.d. Wupper 1. XII. 1921 Der Bürgermeister 50 Pf Gültig bis 1. IV. 22 |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Leiche des ermordeten Erzbischofs Engelbert wird der Einlaß in die Burg verweigert. 8. Nov. 1225. |
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Burg an der Wupper was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land, best known for its blade and tool manufacturing. This 50 Pfennig note belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany in 1921, when chronic coin shortages — driven by postwar metal scarcity and rampant hoarding — forced even minor local authorities to print their own fractional currency. The Reichsbank had neither the capacity nor the inclination to solve the problem quickly.
The DeNG catalog reference places this firmly in the documented Notgeld series for the town, which was administratively merged into Solingen in 1975.