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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Querfurt (City of Querfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within a decorative heraldic shield shows the Madonna and Child in Gothic woodcut style, surrounded by radiating rays and six-pointed stars against a hatched ground; flanking foliage scrolls with red berries fill the lateral panels, while the denomination numerals '50' appear in red at upper left and upper right. Below the central shield, three text cartouches carry the validity clause at lower left, a scriptural motto at centre, and the issuing authority with date at lower right; the printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wie der hl. Brun die Kindlein wecket und hernach malet mit den Wundertäfeln 50 50 HEINZ SCHIESTL |
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Querfurt's 1921 notgeld issue came from J. A. Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu, a printer that handled a substantial volume of municipal emergency currency during the postwar coinage shortage. Heinz Schiestl, a Würzburg-based artist with a strong grounding in woodcut and medievalist graphic traditions, contributed designs to numerous notgeld series in this period — his work is recognizable across many small-town issues and was clearly in demand.
The denomination reflects the acute small-change crisis of 1921, when Reichsmünzen had largely vanished from everyday commerce and hundreds of German municipalities printed their own stopgaps.