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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bitterfeld (City of Bitterfeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bold silhouette vignette in black and cream, showing two airships — a Zeppelin and a Parseval — flying over a crowd of cheering figures rendered in stark silhouette, with a hangar structure visible to the left. In the upper-left corner a small regional map dated 1830 locates Bitterfeld in relation to Berlin, Magdeburg, Halle, and Leipzig. The upper-right corner bears the city arms alongside a tower vignette and the inscription 'STADT BITTERFELD'. Green ivy-leaf borders and denomination '50' cartouches frame all four sides. |
| Reverse lettering | BITTERFELD / ZEPPELIN / PARSEVAL / SEHN WIR UNS NICHT IN DIE-SER WELT, / SO SEHN WIR UNS IN BITTER-FELD / STADT BITTERFELD / 50 / 50 |
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Bitterfeld's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the flood of municipal emergency currency that German cities and towns printed to alleviate the chronic small-change shortage during the early Weimar inflation period. The Reichsbank simply could not produce low-denomination coins fast enough to meet demand, and local authorities were left to improvise. Bitterfeld, an industrial center in Prussian Saxony already heavily tied to chemical manufacturing, issued this through the Stadtkasse rather than a private savings institution — a distinction that mattered legally for redemption obligations.
The reference suffix range .1-34/40 suggests this is one of a numbered set within the series, likely differentiated by reverse text or serial block.