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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Freiberg i.Sa. (City Council of Freiberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Lithographische Anstalt Ernst Lange, Freiberg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue and ochre-yellow on a cream ground, enclosed within a lace-pattern decorative border. The upper field carries the denomination legend in bold Fraktur script on an ochre ground, above a panoramic silhouette vignette of the Freiberg city skyline with church spires. The lower register bears the large numeral '50' flanked by crossed-hammer mining emblems in circular cartouches, a ribbon scroll reading 'Der Stadtrat zu Freiberg i.Sa.', and a facsimile signature above the title 'Oberbürgermeister', with validity and issue date text in the lower corners and series letter 'D' in oval lozenges at each side. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Stadt Freiberg doch darf auch droben nicht die Arbeit schweigen Die Scheidebank ertönt von muntern Streichen. Sein heißes Werk beginnt der Hüttenmann, Am Treibeherd schürt er die Flammen an Dieser Schein wird von allen Städtischen Kassen eingelöst 50 Pf. LITH. ANST. ERNST LANGE, FREIBERG. |
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Freiberg's notgeld program drew directly on the town's identity as one of Saxony's oldest silver-mining centers — the mines had operated continuously since the twelfth century. The 1921 series was issued as municipal small-change scrip during the coin shortage that followed Germany's postwar economic dislocation, printed locally by Ernst Lange rather than contracted out to one of the large Leipzig or Dresden lithographers.
Notgeld from smaller Saxon municipalities often circulated only weeks before being withdrawn, which paradoxically drives survival rates up — collectors absorbed huge quantities before redemption.