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50 Pfennig
| Uitgever | Mücheln, City of |
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| Jaar | 1921 |
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| Vorm | Rectangular |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The note is printed in brown and olive tones on cream paper, with a decorative serrated border framing the entire composition. A central octagonal vignette bears the city seal of Mücheln, encircled by the legend 'SIGIL. DER STADT. MUCHILL', and presents a full-length figure of Saint Jacobus (St. James the Apostle) in pilgrim's robes, holding a staff in his left hand and a bowl in his right, with a halo indicated by dotted lines above his head and the date '1642' flanking him. The denomination '50 PFENNIG' appears in bold letterpress in panels to the left and right of the central vignette, with the issue date 'AUSGEGEBEN AM 1. JULI 1921' at lower left and the issuing authority 'DER MAGISTRAT' with a manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | 50 PF. DIE · KIRCHE · IN · MÜCHELN |
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| Opmerkingen |
Mücheln is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coinage that had been melting away into hoarding and export since the war. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer who handled a significant volume of municipal Notgeld commissions during this period, producing work that ranged from purely functional to deliberately decorative.
Werner Collenbey's involvement as designer suggests this issue falls toward the more considered end of that spectrum — Collenbey contributed designs to multiple Notgeld series in the early 1920s.