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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stecklenberg (Municipality of Stecklenberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed obverse with the bold denomination numeral '50' repeated in decorative type at each upper corner. The central text block in Gothic script reads 'Notgeld von Stecklenberg im Harz.', followed by validity and issuing-authority lines bearing a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorsteher and the date 'Sept. 1921'. At the lower margin, two heraldic shields — the left inscribed 'Holem', the right 'Arneburg' — flank a small vignette of rocky ruins set amid sparse vegetation. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ruine Lauenburg um das Jahr 1840 50 |
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Stecklenberg is a village in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly small German municipalities in 1921, it issued notgeld to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage during the postwar inflation spiral. The reference suffix variants (.2-4/5) indicate multiple design or text iterations within the same base issue — common in Harz-region notgeld, where local printers sometimes produced successive runs with minor typographic adjustments without updating the official designation.
Collectors should note that Stecklenberg issues are genuinely scarce in comparison to notgeld from larger Harz towns, a function of the village's small population and correspondingly limited print runs.