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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mülsen-Sankt Jakob |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Mülsen-St. Jakob Mülsen-St. Jakob, 2. Sept. 1921 Der Gemeindevorstand No. 535459 Gültig bis 30. Sept. 1921 Offsetdruck der Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce, Glauchau |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a humorous caricature vignette in black line-work set within a central rectangular frame: two men in formal dress sit at a table, one spitting at the other in an exaggerated quarrel, illustrating the rhyming moral verse printed beneath. The denomination '50 Pfg' appears in large Gothic script within green diamond-shaped ornamental panels at both left and right margins, each accented with star devices and geometric underprint in green and grey. The sequence number '2' appears in the upper right corner of the central vignette. |
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Mülsen-Sankt Jakob is one of several small Saxon mining and textile communities that issued Notgeld during the inflationary chaos of the early 1920s, when coin shortages made small-denomination federal currency effectively unavailable at the street level. The Gemeinde — a rural parish-level authority with no pretension to financial sophistication — turned to a local commercial printer in nearby Glauchau rather than the specialist Notgeld houses in Leipzig or Berlin that produced the more decorative collector-targeted issues of the same period.
Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce was a civic and municipal printer by trade. These notes were made to spend, not collect.