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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and brown Notgeld note with a striped border enclosing the main design field. At centre, a large ornamental vignette surrounds the municipal coat of arms of Pößneck — a shield bearing a crowned black lion on a blue field, topped by a mural crown — framed by interlaced Art Nouveau scrollwork. Below, the bold letterpress inscription STADT PÖSSNECK is followed by NOTGELD and the denomination 50 Pf. in large figures; two cartouches at lower left and right carry validity text and the facsimile signatures of the Magistrat und Gemeinderat respectively. The numeral 50 appears in each corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT PÖSSNECK NOTGELD 50 Pf. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung Magistrat und Gemeinderat Druck von Johannes Arndt, Jena. |
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Pößneck's 1921 notgeld issue was one of thousands produced across German municipalities as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coins in circulation. The Johannes Arndt Druckerei in Jena was a regional commercial printer — not a specialist security press — and handled notgeld contracts for several Thuringian towns during this period, which accounts for the relatively modest production quality typical of provincial emergency money from this phase of the inflation crisis.
The DeNG reference suggests this note exists in at least three catalogue variants, likely differentiated by serial number ranges or minor typographic changes between print runs.