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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ditfurt (Municipality of Ditfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 79 × 57 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Ditfurt Hett de Buer Geld hett's de ganze Welt 50 Pf. Ditfurt, den 1 Juli 1921. Der Gemeindevorstand Gültig bis Aufruf erfolgt. Buchdruckerei Oscar Grupe, Quedlinburg. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ditfurt 50 |
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Ditfurt is a small village in the Harz foothills, and like hundreds of similarly obscure German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the Weimar Republic's early years. The Reichsbank simply could not keep up with coin demand as inflation began accelerating, and local authorities filled the gap themselves, commissioning nearby printers to produce whatever denominations were needed.
Oscar Grupe's Quedlinburg print shop, roughly four kilometers from Ditfurt, handled a number of regional Notgeld commissions during this period. The reference numbers suggest at least four distinct variants within this issue.