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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Benneckenstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Left panel bears a woodcut vignette of an oak tree; the main field carries a two-stanza German poem in Gothic script with denomination numeral 50 and a redemption notice at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Nichts ahnend, da sich nichts geregt, setzt' er sich singend auf die Alte. Doch diese, unsanft aufgeweckt, zog auf der Stirn die Unmutsfalte. Der Jäger, ahnungslos, erschrak und stammelt' ein Verzeih'n. Entrüstet doch die Alte sprach die Wort': „Benn=eck=en=stein?” Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach der vom Magistrat erlassenen Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. |
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Benneckenstein is a small town in the Harz mountains, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its Magistrat issued emergency fractional paper — Kleingeldscheine — to address the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that had effectively disappeared from circulation during and after the First World War. The Reichsbank was in no position to plug that gap at the municipal level, so local authorities took matters into their own hands, producing notes that varied wildly in print quality and design ambition.
The DeNG reference places this among a group of four or five closely related varieties within the same series — minor differences in serial numbering, signature arrangement, or print run date typically account for such sub-listings.