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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Seehausen i.A. (City of Seehausen in der Altmark) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1215.1-3/3 |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Seehausen i.A. Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig 50 PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung bei der Stadtkasse in Seehausen eingelöst wird. Nachahmungen werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. Seehausen i. d. Altmark, den 5. Februar 1921. Der Magistrat. ZIMMER & MUNTE MAGDEBURG |
| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse in brown, red-brown and beige tones executed in a flat, expressionist illustrative style characteristic of early 1920s German Notgeld art. The central vignette presents a lively street market scene set against a townscape, with figures engaged in a transaction involving a goose or pig and a horse-drawn cart to the right; the denomination '50' appears in large numerals at upper left and right, with 'Seehausen in der Altmark' centred above. A lower panel contains a two-line Low German dialect verse in bold script lettering. |
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Seehausen in der Altmark is a small market town in the Magdeburg Börde region, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that had persisted since the war years. The Zimmer & Munte firm in Magdeburg was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, and that distinction shows in how these notes were produced: essentially as high-quality job printing rather than security printing.
The DeNG reference catalogues three variants (1215.1–3), differentiated by color or text placement — minor production runs rather than separate issues.