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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ober Salzbrunn (Lower Silesia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in black on a red cross-hatched guilloche underprint, with the issuer name 'OBER SALZBRUNN' in bold white letters on a black banner across the top and 'IN SCHLESIEN' similarly across the bottom. The central field carries the validity text in letterpress, with the large denomination '50 PFENNIGE' set in heavy display type at center, flanked by two pale green circular underprint vignettes. The issuing authority and the facsimile signature of Dr. Meyn, as municipal board chairman, appear at lower center, with the printer's imprint 'DRUCK GRASS, BARTH & COMP. W. FRIEDRICH BRESLAU' at the bottom right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | FEIER DES 700 JÄHRIGEN BESTEHENS ZUR 1221 1921 BAD SALZBRUNN i. SCHL. (Translation: For the celebration of the 700th anniversary of Bad Salzbrunn in Silesia, 1221–1921.) |
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Ober Salzbrunn was a spa town in Lower Silesia, its economy built almost entirely around its mineral springs and the wealthy visitors who came to take the waters. This 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany during the postwar inflationary crisis, when small-denomination coins simply vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or rendered economically worthless by rising prices.
Grass, Barth & Comp., operating under the W. Friedrich imprint in Breslau, produced a substantial volume of Silesian Notgeld during this period. The town itself ceased to exist as an independent municipality decades later, absorbed into what is now Szczawno-Zdrój.