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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Silberberg (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink Notgeld note printed in dark blue ink, centred on the city arms of Silberberg — a quartered shield with a crested helmet and elaborate acanthus mantling above — flanked on either side by the denomination numeral '50' and the abbreviation 'Pf.' in Gothic blackletter type. The date 'Silberberg, den 1. Oktbr. 21.' appears at lower left, with manuscript facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and the Stadtverordneten at lower right. A validity clause in Roman script runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Donjon der Festung Silberberg. 50 ℳ Trutz Frost und Sturm ein steinern Promemoria Noch im Verfall ein Mal verflossener Gloria.. |
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Silberberg — now Srebrna Góra in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian garrison town whose entire claim to commercial significance in 1921 rested on its Prussian-era fortress and a shrinking local economy. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the Kleingeldnot of the early Weimar period, Silberberg issued its own emergency fractional currency because federal coinage had been hoarded or melted and the Reichsbank could not meet demand for small change.
The DeNG 1/2 catalog distinguishes two types for this issue — this is the second variant. The difference between them is typically a printing or paper stock change, though both circulated within the town itself and would have been redeemable locally.