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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Suderode, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress Notgeld note with a geometric diamond-pattern border frame. At upper centre, the word 'SOLBAD' appears in a rectangular cartouche, flanked by a two-stanza German verse in Fraktur script referencing the healing mineral springs of the Harz region. To the left, a large oval vignette contains the denomination numeral '50' in Gothic blackletter with a Pfennig symbol, set against a dotted guilloche oval; to the right, a geyser or mineral spring spout rises against a dark ground, accompanied by the validity clause, place and date of issue ('Bad Suderode Harz, den 13. Mai 1921'), the issuing authority title 'Der Gemeindevorsteher', and a manuscript signature, with a red serial number printed along the lower left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue and pale ground letterpress reverse with a dotted outer border. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large white figures at upper left and upper right corners. A central circular vignette, bordered by a repetitive guilloche band and the inscription 'CALCIUM - TRINKKUREN', contains a panoramic photographic view of Bad Suderode set amid the wooded Harz hills, with a church spire visible at centre right; the caption 'Bad Suderode Harz' appears within the vignette. Symmetrical Art Nouveau-style foliate pillar ornaments flank the central medallion on both sides. Below, a banner cartouche carries the bold Fraktur inscription 'Bad Suderode Harz', with the printer's imprint 'LOUIS KOCH - HALBERSTADT' in small capitals along the bottom margin. |
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Bad Suderode was a small spa town in the Harz foothills, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that had plagued Germany since the war. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional jobbing printer who handled Notgeld commissions for several Harz-area communities during this period; the work was bread-and-butter commercial printing, not a specialist security operation.
These municipal issues had no legal tender status beyond the issuing locality, and most were redeemed and destroyed once coin supplies normalized in the mid-1920s.