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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gatersleben, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Gatersleben 50 Vor Zeiten sprach hier mancher Richter hart Urteil über bös's Gelichter Sei dieser Turm ein Warnungszeichen für Schieber Wucherer u. dergleichen. Der Maltturm Ungültig 3 Monate nach öffentl. Aufkündigung Gatersleben den 30. 7. 1921. Der Gemeindevorstand Hermannes Louis Koch – Halberstadt |
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| Reverse lettering | Den Beiden war man auf der Spur. Der Weg zum Bahnhof blieb jetzt nur. Der Zug fährt an. Rasch ohne Karte gets durch des Knipsers hohe Warte. Sein Ruf: Halt an! tut Max berichten mit einem Freie Bahn dem Tüchtigen! Fahrkarte II Kl. Freie Bahn dem Tüchtigen 50 |
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Gatersleben is a small agricultural village in the Harz foothills, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is modest in ambition — a local emergency scrip filling the coin shortage that plagued German small commerce throughout the early Weimar inflation years. Louis Koch of Halberstadt handled a significant volume of regional Notgeld contracts during this period, printing for dozens of municipalities across the Harz and Magdeburger Börde. The designer credit to "v. Dockhorn" appears across several Koch-printed issues from the same year, suggesting a house designer rather than a commission specific to this village.
The P# reference indicates this belongs to a set of at least six variants — likely differentiated by date or serial range within the 1921 issue run.