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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Neidenburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in dark red, green, and yellow on buff paper; the town name 'Neidenburg-Ostpreußen' in Gothic blackletter script heads the note, with '19 Notgeld 21' centred below it. A large stylised numeral '50' in red occupies the central field, enclosed within an elaborate Art Nouveau surround of swirling foliate scrollwork and twin cornucopia vignettes bearing fruit. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot beneath the legend ':DER MAGISTRAT:', with validity, redemption, and imprint clauses distributed across the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Neidenburg-Ostpreußen 19 Notgeld 21 :DER MAGISTRAT: DIESER SCHEIN WIRD UNGÜLTIG VIERZEHN TAGE NACH ÖFFENTL. BEKANNTMACHUNG. DRUCK: HARTUNG, HAMBG. DIE EINLÖSUNG ERFOLGT BIS ZU DIESEM ZEITPUNKT BEI DER STADTKASSE / NOV. 21 ENTW. ARCHITEKT HANS PHILIPP |
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Neidenburg — now Nidzica in northern Poland — was a small East Prussian town that issued this note amid the currency shortages that plagued German municipal authorities in the early 1920s. The Magistrat's decision to commission a Hamburg printer rather than use a local firm was common practice for Notgeld of any pretension; Hartung produced work for numerous municipal issuers during this period.
The designer credit to Hans Philipp as architect is worth noting — civic officials frequently recruited architects for Notgeld commissions, treating the notes as small exercises in municipal self-presentation rather than purely functional emergency scrip.