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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Magdeburg (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 83 × 58 mm |
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| Reverse description | Red and green letterpress composition on cream paper, enclosed within the same green geometric chevron border as the obverse. The central scene illustrates the famous Magdeburg hemispheres experiment, with two teams of horses straining in opposite directions against the evacuated copper spheres, observed by robed and conical-hatted figures at right; a circular portrait medallion of Bürgermeister Otto von Guericke in green appears at lower right. Inscriptions in red identify the subject and inventor across the upper portion of the design. |
| Reverse lettering | DIE MAGDEBURGER HALBKUGELN, UNTRENNBAR VERBUNDEN BÜRGERMEISTER V. GUERICKE HAT SIE ERFUNDEN |
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Magdeburg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — not the inflationary catastrophe that followed, but the earlier coin shortage problem that had been grinding on since the war years. Cities were effectively printing small change because the Reichsbank couldn't produce it fast enough, and municipal authorities across Germany issued millions of these notes with varying degrees of artistic ambition.
The designer monogram "K.T." remains unresolved in the standard Notgeld literature. The reference spread across DeNG 1/2#0857.1-3/4 indicates at least four distinct varieties within this Magdeburg 50 Pfennig grouping — worth examining side by side, as the differences between subvarieties are not always obvious.