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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pölzig (Municipality of Pölzig, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A polychrome panoramic vignette occupies the upper portion, rendered in a naive watercolour style, showing a broad townscape view of Pölzig i. Thür. with church steeples, tiled rooftops and surrounding trees. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in large Gothic numerals at centre-lower, flanked by decorative wheat-sheaf motifs in ochre and brown. Below left, the issuing authority and date 'Pölzig, 1921 / Der Gemeinderat' appear in Kurrent script alongside a manuscript signature, with the validity notation 'Gültig bis 1. October 1922' at lower right; the printer's imprint runs along the very bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. Drum hat das pölzger Grafenschloss Victoria mit verderben, die Schwierigkeit ist jetzt sehr groß, wollt mans zurück erwerben. Denn 23 Erben sind's a, fast alles Potentatten, erlangen Pannat Die geht geschwind durchs Notgeld, läßt Dir raten! = Blick in den Schlosshof Pölzig i. Thür. = |
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Pölzig is a village so small it barely registers in regional administrative records, yet like hundreds of equally obscure Thuringian municipalities it issued its own emergency currency during the Kleingeldnot of 1921 — the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar coin metal crisis. The printer, Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik, was primarily a playing card manufacturer, a common choice for Notgeld commissions in the Altenburg area given their existing color printing infrastructure and proximity to dozens of issuing municipalities.
The DeNG reference indicates two design variants within this series — 1065.1 and 1065.2/3 — which is typical of Pölzig's output but worth confirming before cataloging multiples.