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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rieder (Municipality of Rieder) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Black on white notgeld note with a bold decorative border. The large ornamental letter 'R' of 'Rieder' dominates the right half, incorporating a small woodcut-style vignette of two seated figures. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in Gothic lettering at the top, with the issuing authority text arranged vertically along the left margin and the regional designation 'Ostharz' and value repeated at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld der Gemeinde Rieder // Ostharz Gültig bis zur Bekanntmachung. Rieder d. 1. Sept. 21 d. Gemeindevorstand // i.V. (Translation: 50 pfennigs Notgeld from the municipality of Rieder // Eastern Harz mountains Valid until notice. Rieder the 1st of September 1921 The Municipal Board of Directors // on behalf of) |
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Rieder is a small village in the Harz region of what was then the Province of Saxony. Like hundreds of similarly minor municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the early 1920s when small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation due to metal shortages and hoarding. The Gemeinde had no printing infrastructure of its own; these notes were almost certainly contracted to a regional printer, as was standard for small-town Notgeld at this scale.
The DeNG reference suffix ".2a-b" indicates at least two recognized varieties within this single denomination — likely color or paper stock variants, a common occurrence when municipalities reordered print runs from different batches.