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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Nimptsch (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of a historic battle scene before a Gothic church tower and half-timbered buildings, rendered in red, green, and black letterpress. To the left, an oval portrait medallion set within a laurel wreath shows a bearded 17th-century figure identified by a caption tablet below as Caspar von Lohen, first citizen of Nimptsch; to the right, a second oval vignette contains a cannonball. Along the lower margin, a diamond-shaped value tablet bearing the numeral '50' is flanked by the validity inscription and the issuing authority's manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and red on a cream ground, with a large central panel containing a panoramic bird's-eye-view engraving of the town of Nimptsch circa 1600, captioned on a scroll banner above. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each of the four corner blocks against an ochre underprint, and the town's heraldic shield is repeated at the left and right margins. Bold black banners at the top and bottom carry the issuer and locality inscriptions in block lettering. |
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Nimptsch — today the Polish town of Niemcza — was among hundreds of small Silesian municipalities that issued Notgeld during the early 1920s as chronic small-coin shortages made everyday commerce genuinely difficult. This note was printed by Grass, Barth & Comp. in Breslau, the dominant regional print house for Lower Silesian emergency issues, which handled so many municipal commissions in this period that their output is essentially the visual grammar of Silesian Notgeld.
The 1921 date places this squarely in the second wave of municipal issues, after the immediate postwar chaos but before hyperinflation rendered the denomination absurd within two years.