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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Genthin |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Genthin 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städt. Kassen in Zahlung genommen und verliert drei Monate nach Aufforderung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit. Genthin, den 1. Juli 1921 Der Magistrat |
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| Reverse lettering | Wo sich Männer finden die für Ehr' und Recht, Mutig sich verbinden weilt ein frei Geschlecht. |
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Genthin is a small town in the Magdeburg district of Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1919 and 1922 — a period when chronic small-coin shortages forced local authorities to issue their own emergency fractional currency. The Magistrat had no printing infrastructure of its own; Alfred Hanf of Erfurt was a reliable regional supplier to dozens of similar municipal issuers across central Germany during this period.
Collector-grade Notgeld of this type was often printed in deliberate surplus and sold directly to dealers and collectors, muddying any attempt to reconstruct true circulation figures.