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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ditfurt (Municipality of Ditfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Ditfurt. Gültig bis zum Aufruf Ditfurt d. 1.7.1921 Der Gemeinde Vorstand: Engelbrecht 50 pfennig |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Es war in jener alten Zeit, als die Äbtissin Adelheid von Ditfurt Steuern noch bekam die sie in Form von Eiern nahm 50 Pfennig |
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Ditfurt is a small village in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination coins. The Reichsbank simply could not produce enough fractional coinage to meet everyday demand in the post-WWI inflationary spiral, and the gap fell to local governments, savings banks, even individual businesses to fill.
The DeNG reference places this within a numbered series of six notes issued by Ditfurt, suggesting a coordinated local issue rather than a one-off stopgap. Many Harz-region Notgeld issues were printed by small provincial firms whose work varied considerably in quality and registration accuracy.