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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Aken (Elbe), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tan ground with a red outer border and green lateral guilloche panels at left and right. At centre, a circular vignette reproduces the medieval seal of the city of Magdeburg, showing a bishop in pontifical vestments standing beneath a Gothic arch flanked by two towers, with heraldic shields to either side; the seal legend reads SIGNETVM BVRGENSIVVM VRBIS AQVENSIS FIDELIS FILIA ECCLESIAE MAGDEBVRGENSIS. Above the vignette, the issuer's name STADT AKEN/ELBE appears in bold Gothic script; to the lower left a validity notice in German script states the note expires three months after proclamation, and to the lower right the date Aken, i. Oktober 1921 and the manuscript signature of Der Magistrat are printed. |
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| Reverse description | Green ground with red border and decorative vertical panels in red and green at the outer edges. The denomination FÜNFZIG PFENNIG is inscribed in bold Gothic lettering across a red banner at top, flanked on each side by the numeral 50 in black. Two rectangular local-view vignettes occupy the upper half: at left, the Cöthener Tor (Cöthen Gate) tower with surrounding buildings and trees, signed C. Krüger at lower left; at centre, a cartouche with an anchor and wheel device; at right, the Elbtor (Elbe Gate) with courtyard and foliage. Below, two red panels carry a six-line verse in Low German script extolling the town of Aken. |
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Aken an der Elbe is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its Magistrat issued Notgeld not out of any genuine liquidity crisis but because the small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never reminted in sufficient quantity after the war. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau handled a considerable volume of municipal emergency currency for smaller Saxon and central German towns during this period, and the production quality reflects that workaday municipal contract work rather than the elaborate collector-targeted Serienscheine that dominated the market by 1921.
The DeNG 1/2 series reference places this firmly in the standard Kleingeldscheine issues rather than the decorative series, which means it was almost certainly intended for actual use.