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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Mücheln, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN·DER·STADT·MÜCHELN ST.·JACOBUS· SIGIL·DER·STADT·MÜCHELN 16 42 50 PFENNIG AUSGEGEBEN AM 1. JULI 1921 DER·MAGISTRAT VERLIERT·SEINE·GÜLTIGKEIT·1·MONAT·NACH·ABRUF |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Wessner-Collenbey Rathausportal Mücheln DIS·HVS·VORGEHT·GOTS·WORT·BESTHET LVCA 21. 1571. |
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Mücheln, a small mining town in the Merseburg district, issued this 50 Pfennig note as part of Germany's vast Notgeld wave — a response to acute small-denomination coin shortages that had persisted since the war years. By 1921 the emergency currency phenomenon had evolved well beyond its original purpose; municipalities and local merchants were commissioning artistically ambitious designs, partly for collector sales, which generated real revenue for cash-strapped administrations.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig was a prolific Notgeld printer, handling commissions from dozens of Thuringian and Saxon communities during this period. The Wessner-Collenbey design credit is relatively uncommon in the catalog record for this series.