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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Glashütte (Sa) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Orange-toned note with a fine guilloche underprint within a dark brown border of stylised ornamental notching. The denomination numeral '50' and 'Pfennig' in Gothic blackletter appear at the upper portion, above a central rectangular vignette presenting a detailed architectural view of the Deutsche Uhrmacherschule (German Watchmakers' School) in Glashütte, flanked by a watchmaker's escapement wheel to the left and a gear wheel with a coiled mainspring to the right, all referencing the town's celebrated watchmaking industry. The lower legend reads 'Stadt-Girokasse Glashütte (Sa) Konto No 5', with the printer's imprint 'Max Rönisch, Dresden' below the border. |
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| Protection description | Circular watermark visible on the obverse, lower left area. |
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| Comments |
Glashütte, a small Saxon town whose identity was almost entirely bound up in precision watchmaking, issued this note during the inflationary spiral of 1921 — well before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1922–23 but already in the period when municipal authorities across Germany were filling the gap left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination coin. Max Rönisch of Dresden was a prolific printer of Saxony's notgeld, and the watermarked paper here was a minor but deliberate security gesture, unusual for notes of this denomination and this level of local issuer.