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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rieder (Municipality of Rieder) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a woodcut-style vignette illustrating a historical rural scene dated 1548, with a mounted figure on horseback alongside a standing peasant, a village silhouette and trees in the background. The denomination numeral '50' is printed in ochre-yellow within a decorative foliate cartouche at bottom centre. Historical narrative text in blackletter script is arranged in two columns flanking the central vignette, with a bold diagonally hatched border running along the top edge. |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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Rieder is a small village in the Harz foothills of Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly minor German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency money — Notgeld — to cover the chronic shortage of small-denomination coin that had been deteriorating since the war years. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand, and local authorities filled the gap themselves.
The watermarked paper distinguishes this particular note from the cheaper wood-pulp issues flooding the market at the same moment. Whether that was a deliberate signal of civic seriousness or simply the paper stock available to the printer is not recorded.