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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Brieg (City of Brieg), Lower Silesia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Brieg. Brieger Ratsturm 50 50 Fünfzig Pfennig |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Brieg — now Brzeg in modern Poland — was among the hundreds of German municipalities that resorted to Notgeld during the early Weimar years when chronic coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. This 50 Pfennig piece is typical of the municipal emergency issues that flooded the country between 1919 and 1922, authorized locally rather than by any central banking authority.
The embossed seal served as the primary authentication device, replacing the printing security that a smaller city administration simply couldn't replicate. Brieg's issues are not among the rarer Silesian Notgeld, but the region's subsequent transfer to Poland under post-WWII border shifts means surviving civic documentation from the German municipal period — including these notes — carries an additional layer of historical displacement.