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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Colditz, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Green, gold and grey Notgeld with a central circular vignette of a seated potter at a worktable surrounded by earthenware vessels, enclosed by a circular inscription band with verses referencing Colditz stoneware. Denomination 50 in diamond cartouches at left and right, flanked by ornate scrollwork panels. Designer signature Joh. Hoppe at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 50 PF. Stadt Colditz In Colditz herrscht der feine Ton, das ist bekannt, seit Jahren schon Viel Feingeschirr "Steingut" genannt Man formt aus Ton mit Kund'ger Hand Wenn dir ein Topf zerschell't, so jammere nicht mein Sohn, Du kriegst, für wenig Geld, Ersatz in Steingutton. Joh. Hoppe |
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Colditz issued this Notgeld note in 1921, during the period when hundreds of German municipalities were printing their own small-denomination emergency currency to address the chronic coin shortage that had persisted since the war. The town's name would later become inseparable from its castle — repurposed by the Wehrmacht as Oflag IV-C in 1940 — but that association was still two decades away when this note circulated among local merchants and residents.
The designer credit to Joh. Hoppe is unusually specific for a municipal Notgeld commission of this size. Most small-town issues of this type went uncredited.