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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weißenfels (City of Weißenfels) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark grey-black ground with a red border frame enclosing the entire design. At centre, the circular municipal seal of Weißenfels bears the city arms — an orange shield with a black lion above a twin-towered church — surrounded by the legend STADT WEISSENFELS and the date M547, flanked on each side by radiating sunburst vignettes in grey and orange with the denomination numeral '50' and 'PFG' printed in red. The heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Weissenfels' curves across the top in decorative script, with 'Ausgegeben: 1921' to the left and 'a.d. Saale' to the right; below, a validity clause reads 'Gültig bis vier Wochen nach der Ungültigkeitserklärung im hiesigen Amtsblatt. Der Magistrat:', flanked by ornamental cartouches, one bearing a facsimile signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | Reiterstiefel 1620 1680 50 50 Ruhe ist des Bürgers Pflicht! Auch der Schuster scheut sie nicht Drum die Zunft hat ungeniert, Blauen Montag eingeführt Augustusburg |
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Weißenfels issued this note under the conditions that produced Germany's first great wave of Kleingeldersatz — the acute small-change shortage that gripped municipalities from around 1916 onward and exploded after the war. Cities, towns, utilities, and even individual businesses printed their own fractional currency because Reichsbank coin simply wasn't circulating. By 1921 the practice was both widespread and, in many cases, an opportunity for civic self-promotion through commissioned artwork.
Boy Peysen was a Hamburg-based graphic artist associated with the Jugendstil-influenced commercial design scene of the early Weimar period. His involvement here is worth noting — Notgeld of this vintage varies enormously in design quality, and attributed commissions are less common than anonymous presswork.