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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Zerbst |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels against a green foliate underprint. The central panel bears the municipal coat of arms of Zerbst — a red city gate with four towers over an archway, flanked by two quartered shields — set within an oval wreath. The left panel carries a vignette of a medieval knight in armour standing within a stone arch, while the right panel mirrors it with a figure of a woman in period dress; denomination numerals '50' in red appear in the upper corners of the outer panels, with the date 'Zerbst, den 1. Juli 1921' and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' inscribed at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfg Gutschein Die Gültigkeit erlischt 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung Zerbst, den 1. Juli 1921 Der Magistrat LOUIS KOCH - HALBERSTADT |
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Zerbst, a small Anhalt town, issued this note during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1921, when chronic coin shortages forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own low-denomination scrip. The Louis Koch firm in Halberstadt was a regional workhorse for this kind of contract work, producing notgeld for numerous Mitteldeutschland municipalities simultaneously — quality was functional, not ambitious.
The 1469.2A designation in the Grabowski-Mehl reference indicates a specific paper variant within the Zerbst series, which ran across multiple values and print runs that year.