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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Königsberg in der Neumark (City of Königsberg in der Neumark) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Handle frei, frage frei Gutschein der Stadt Königsberg i/m verfällt 3 Monate nach Außerkraftsetzung Der Magistrat 50 Pfg. |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress vignette on a yellow-ochre cross-hatched underprint, with a detailed view of the Gothic Marienkirche (St. Mary's Church) of Königsberg in der Neumark at left, its tall pinnacled façade rendered in fine line work. At upper left the issue date 'Februar 1921' is inscribed, with the issuer name 'Stadt Königsberg N/M.' in decorative script at upper right; to the right, a large circular medallion vignette contains an owl perched on a branch amid radiating rays of light, encircled by a German-script legend. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfg.' is lettered in the lower panel, with the printer's imprint below. |
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Königsberg in der Neumark — now Chojna, Poland — was one of hundreds of small German municipalities that issued emergency small-change notes (Kleingeldscheine) during the coin shortages that followed the First World War. The 1921 date places this within the middle phase of the Notgeld boom, after the initial postwar scramble but before hyperinflation made small denominations essentially worthless by 1923.
Printed locally by H. Madrasch, this is genuine workhorse Notgeld — functional, municipal, and never intended for collectors, though the collector market eventually consumed most of it anyway.