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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stendal, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31.12.1921 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on a grey guilloche underprint. A central vignette bears the municipal coat of arms of Stendal — a quartered shield with a rampant eagle and diamond lozenges, surmounted by a decorative crest — flanked on either side by octagonal denominational cartouches inscribed '50 Pf.' in red. The upper border carries the legend 'Notgeld für Stendal i/s Altm.' in bold Gothic script, while the lower portion presents the issue date 'Stendal, d. 15. Juli 1921', a serial number, two manuscript signatures under the authority of 'Der Magistrat', and a silhouette skyline of the city of Stendal along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dät soll woll sin: du kannst tohöcht, kannst ook hendal maol kiek'n. Äm bestn äöwer werd't woll sin, du bliwst bi dienesgliek'n. GARLEY 50 2. De Gardeleger wull'n Junker sin. |
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Stendal's 1921 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as coin shortages worsened in the early Weimar years. Most city-issued notgeld from this period was printed in enormous quantities by regional job printers, often serving as much as local advertising or collectible novelty as it did a transactional medium — by 1921, the collector market for notgeld was actively distorting production, with some municipalities printing far beyond any genuine monetary need.
The DeNG reference suffix ".1-2/7" indicates this is one of multiple design variants within a single issuance series — a routine practice for Stendal and dozens of other German towns printing sets specifically aimed at the thriving notgeld collector trade.