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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband Auerbach im Vogtland |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Bezirksverband Auerbach i. Vogtland No. 231665 Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Auerbach i.V. 1. Juli 1921 Gültig bis zum Aufruf Der Bezirksverband Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce, Künstlerdruck, Glauchau (Sachs.) |
| Reverse description | Dark brown and cream note printed in a bold silhouette cut-paper (Scherenschnitt) style by artist Hans Kinder, set within multiple concentric ruled borders with a light guilloché underprint in the outer band. The central vignette, numbered "2" at lower right, portrays a young girl in traditional dress offering a cup to a crouching, shaggy creature — an illustration drawn from local folklore. Below the vignette, two lines of Gothic verse text appear, with the artist credit and printer's imprint in smaller type at the foot. |
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Auerbach im Vogtland is a small Vogtland district town in western Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz when the Reichsbank could not keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough to meet postwar demand. What sets this particular emission apart from generic municipal scrip is the involvement of the Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau — a press that marketed itself specifically as an art printer, and whose Kleingeldscheine from this period show noticeably higher production ambition than comparable emergency issues. Heinz Schiesil's design credit is relatively rare documentation for scrip of this denomination and type.