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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ditfurt (Municipality of Ditfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and ochre-yellow on white paper, the obverse is framed by a double-ruled border enclosing an inner yellow underprint band, with the issuer's title in two lines of bold Fraktur script across the upper portion. A central ornamental cartouche carries the large denomination numeral '50' with 'pfennig' inscribed below, flanked by foliate devices and two circular vignettes at lower left and right each containing a rooster motif. The validity clause and date 'Ditfurt d. 1.7.1921' appear in smaller Fraktur to the left of the cartouche, with the municipal board designation and facsimile signature 'Engelbrecht' to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Ditfurt. Gültig bis zum Aufruf. Ditfurt d. 1.7.1921 Der Gemeinde Vorstand: Engelbrecht 50 Pfennig |
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Ditfurt is a village in the Harz foothills, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had been gnawing at everyday commerce since the war years. The Reichsbank simply could not keep low-value metal coins in circulation; they vanished into hoarding or melting the moment they appeared.
The reference suffix .2-3/6 indicates this is one of a numbered sub-series, suggesting Ditfurt issued multiple design variants within the same denomination — not unusual for municipalities that used local printers and occasionally updated or corrected their plates between runs.