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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Aschersleben (City Main Cashier's Office, Aschersleben) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 94 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is executed entirely in an elaborate Gothic Fraktur calligraphic style printed in black on a pale olive-grey ground, with the large denomination numeral '50' and the abbreviation 'Pfg.' rendered in bold outline to the right, accented in red. The main text block, set in ornate blackletter script, states the issuing authority and payment order across four lines, with the date, magistrate's signature, and serial number appearing at the foot. The designer's name 'Krelle' is printed in small roman type at the lower centre, and the validity date 'Gültig bis 1. März 1922' flanks the serial number along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf — Der Markt — 50 Pf (Translation: 50 Pfennig — The Market — 50 Pfennig) |
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Aschersleben's 1921 emergency issues came at the height of Germany's Notgeld saturation period, when municipalities across the Weimar Republic were printing their own fractional currency to address a genuine small-denomination coin shortage. The Stadthauptkasse — the city's own treasury office, not a private bank — acted as direct issuer, which was common for smaller Saxon towns but gave these notes a more administrative than commercial character.
The designer credit to Krelle is worth noting: local or regional commercial artists were frequently commissioned for Notgeld series, and attribution survives here where it often does not.