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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bismark i/A. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ground notgeld note with a central vignette of the medieval stone tower known as "Die Goldene Laus," built in the 12th century, surrounded by foliage and set against a sky with birds in flight. Two diagonal ribbon banners cross in the foreground, bearing the denomination split as "Fünfzig Pfennig" and the validity clause "Ungültig 3 Monate nach Abruf," while a heraldic shield with an eagle and rose appears at left and the numeral "50" in a framed panel at right. A panoramic townscape vignette of Bismark runs along the lower margin, with the date "1. 10. 1921" and facsimile signatures of Der Magistrat at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Bismark i/A. Ungültig 3 Monate nach Abruf Fünfzig Pfennig Erbaut im 12. Jahrh. Die Goldene Laus. 50 Bismark, den 1.10.1921 DER MAGISTRAT |
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Bismark in der Altmark — a small market town in the Prussian province of Saxony — issued this note during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Municipal and commercial bodies across the country were legally permitted to fill the gap with Kleingeldersatzscheine, small-denomination paper substitutes for coins that had disappeared from circulation due to hoarding and metal shortages following the war. The Magistrat here was one of hundreds of local authorities exercising that right.
The series is obscure precisely because Bismark was a minor issuer with limited print runs and no particular reason to produce elaborate designs.