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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bitterfeld (City of Bitterfeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BITTERFELD 50 PF Ausgabe: 1. Dezember 1921. Der Magistrat: Verfällt 1 Mon. n. Aufruf. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEUTSCHLANDS KOHLENAUSFUHR Bild 6 Ausfuhr vom April 1920-März 1921: 28,1 Mill. t. davon Reparationskohle: 67,1%. An Polen, Ungarn, Danzig, Memel, Dt. Oesterr.: 21,4% Ausfuhr zu Weltmarktpreisen: 11,5%. |
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Bitterfeld's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the so-called "Serienscheine" phase, when towns increasingly treated small-denomination paper as a printable revenue stream rather than a genuine stopgap. By 1921 the acute coin shortage of 1918–1920 had eased somewhat, but municipalities had discovered that collectors would pay face value or above for complete series, effectively funding local budgets through philatelic demand.
C. Schröter was a mid-tier Leipzig commercial printer with no particular distinction in the Notgeld trade — competent work, not a prestige commission.