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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Treuenbrietzen, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a tall tower with a red tiled roof flanked by ornate Baroque scrollwork, beneath which sits a cartouche bearing the town arms: a red brick fortified gateway surmounted by a black eagle. The denomination numeral '50' appears twice in wreath-framed oval medallions at left and right against a gold floral underprint. The issue date 'Ausgegeben im Juli 1921' is inscribed at lower left, with a facsimile magistrate signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig KURFÜRST LUDWIG I.(BAYER) VERLEIHT AN DIE TREUENBRIETZENER BÜRGERSCHAFT LANDBESITZ 50 HEINZ SCHIESTR |
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Treuenbrietzen is a small Brandenburg town whose notgeld program was modest even by 1921 standards. This 50 Pfennig note was printed by J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu — a Bavarian print shop in the Allgäu region that handled notgeld commissions for municipalities well outside its immediate geography, a common arrangement during the peak years of the small-denomination paper shortage.
The designer credit to Heinz Schiestr is the one detail worth flagging: individual designer attributions on notgeld are relatively uncommon and suggest the town commissioned original artwork rather than pulling from a stock template catalog.