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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Scheibenberg (City of Scheibenberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green, black, and yellow, with an elaborate Art Nouveau scrollwork border filling all four corners. A large octagonal frame at centre encloses a detailed vignette of a Scheibenberg street scene centred on the Turnhalle (gymnasium building), with tall trees and period architecture rendered in fine letterpress. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in large script at both the left and right sides of the octagonal frame. A curved inscription along the upper edge of the octagon reads 'Aus bess'ren Zeit', and the lower arc reads 'dr Bungd geweiht'; a small artist's cartouche marked 'LINDEBERG' is visible within the vignette at lower left, and the caption 'TURNHALLE' appears beneath the central image. |
| Reverse lettering | Aus bess'ren Zeit 50 Pf. dr Bungd geweiht TURNHALLE |
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Scheibenberg is a small mining town in the Erzgebirge — the Ore Mountains of Saxony — and this 50 Pfennig Notgeld was printed locally by Flath & Reimert during the inflationary spiral that made small-denomination Reichsmark coinage effectively worthless by 1921. Thousands of German municipalities issued their own emergency notes during this period, but having a local printer rather than one of the larger specialty houses means the print quality and paper stock vary considerably across surviving examples.
The series was purely functional, never intended for long circulation — once the issuing city redeemed its notes, most were simply discarded.