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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bitterfeld (City of Bitterfeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | C. Schröter, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BITTERFELD 50 PF Ausgabe: 1. Dezember 1921. Der Magistrat: Verfällt 1 Mon. n. Aufruf. C. Schröter, Leipzig |
| Reverse description | The reverse employs the same two-colour letterpress treatment in black and terracotta, presenting a horizontally divided allegorical vignette captioned 'HAUSBRAND UND KLEINGEWERBE' in the upper border, with 'Bild 5' in a small cartouche at upper left. The left half of the scene shows a domestic interior with a housewife beside a tiled stove and a laid table beneath a hanging lamp, while the right half portrays an industrial boiler room with a worker attending large cylindrical pressure vessels. An orange guilloche underprint panel in the lower register contains a statistical text on coal distribution in Germany. |
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Bitterfeld's 1921 Notgeld issues came out of the same postwar emergency that flooded Germany with municipal small-change notes — the Reichsbank's inability to keep fractional coinage in circulation left cities printing their own. C. Schröter was a Leipzig commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly what you'd expect from a mid-sized industrial town moving fast to solve a practical problem.
The 111.3 reference places this within a numbered series, suggesting Bitterfeld issued multiple denominations and types across this period — collectors should note the 5/6 suffix, which typically denotes a specific print run or plate variant within the type.