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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schmiedeberg (Wittenberg), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1186.1b-1/6 |
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| Obverse lettering | Anno Notgeld -EISEN- -MOOR- Bad Schmiedeberg BEZ HALLE AUCH HIERHER KAM MANCHER AUF KRÜCKEN 50 50 DER YETZO TANZT · AUF DEM · SEIL Dieser Gutschein wird von der Stadtkasse eingelöst Er behält seine Gültigkeit bis zum Aufruf. DER MAGISTRAT DRUCK J.A.SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG, ALLGÄU 1921 |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on buff paper, the reverse carries a bold silhouette-style vignette occupying most of the face, rendered in a flat cut-paper artistic manner. The scene shows a mounted herald blowing a trumpet atop a horse, accompanied by two figures on foot and animals in a wooded setting, evoking a historical electoral procession. A three-line verse in archaic German script runs along the lower margin, and the denomination '50 Pf.' appears in the upper right corner; the lithographer's credit 'LEHMANN-WITTENBERG' is printed in small capitals at the foot. |
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Schmiedeberg is a small town in the Wittenberg district of Saxony-Anhalt, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany in 1921 as chronic small-coin shortages persisted well after the Armistice. J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a prolific Notgeld printer during this period, handling commissions from dozens of towns simultaneously — quality and paper stock varied considerably across their output.
The DeNG 1/2#1186.1b suffix indicates this is one of several variants within the series, distinguished by minor typographic or color differences catalogued by Grabowski and Mehl.