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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stecklenberg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a typographic style with the denomination numeral '50' in bold hatched lettering at each upper corner. The central inscription 'Notgeld von Stecklenberg im Harz.' is set in large calligraphic script, with validity text 'Gültig bis zum Aufruf. Sept. 1921' to the lower left and the issuing authority signature line 'Der Gemeindevorsteher:' to the lower right, bearing a manuscript signature beneath. Two heraldic shields flank a central vignette of ruined stonework amid vegetation — the left shield inscribed 'HOLEM' and the right inscribed 'Arneburg / Stecklenberg'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a full-border landscape vignette rendered in a fine engraved style, showing a panoramic view of the Stecklenberg ruins in the Harz region as they appeared circa 1810, with a solitary figure on a path in the foreground, ruined walls and a tower to the right, and a large tree to the upper left. The denomination '50' appears in a circle at the upper left corner. A caption in roman type runs along the lower margin. |
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Stecklenberg is a small village in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities in 1921 as small-denomination coinage remained chronically scarce in the postwar economy. Thousands of German towns issued their own emergency money during this period, but the sheer granularity of issuance — down to villages of a few hundred inhabitants — makes the Stecklenberg series a collector curiosity rather than a monetary artifact of any real weight.
The DeNG reference suffix ".2-1/5" indicates this is one of five known varieties within the second main type of the issue.