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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Harzgerode |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | HARZGERODE HARZGERODE MIT NEUEM RATHAUS, DEM PARADIESE NAH, EINST STÄTTE BLÜHENDEN BERGBAUS, JETZT SIND VIEL FREMDE DA 50 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 3 MONAT NACH ÖFFENTLICH. AUFRUF. HARZGERODE DEN 7. JULI 1921 DER MAGISTRAT: LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a colour letterpress architectural vignette of the Harzgerode Rathaus square, rendered as a detailed panorama with a church tower at left, an ornate timber-framed new town hall at right, a market monument in the foreground, and trees beneath a pale blue and gold stippled sky. The legend HARZGERODE runs across the top in large bold red-and-black decorative type, and DAS RATHAUS is similarly lettered across the bottom, both set against a light blue ground. The central scene is enclosed within a rectangular border with stylised green and red foliate side panels. |
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Harzgerode is a small town in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the Inflationszeit emergency currency wave that swept German municipalities in 1921 as coin shortages worsened and the Reichsmark began its slide. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer who handled Notgeld commissions for several small local authorities in the area — competent work, but not a specialist security printer.
The Magistrat series from Harzgerode is not notably scarce, and Koch's output for these small-town issues was utilitarian rather than artistically ambitious.