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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Dessau (City of Dessau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress Notgeld in red, blue, and yellow. To the left, a vignette of two soldiers in historical Dessau military uniform — tall pointed helmets, blue coats with gold trim — marching in step, with a stylised townscape in the background. The denomination '50' appears in large red numerals at upper right, with the issuing authority named in bold Gothic blackletter script across the upper centre. A red banner at the bottom carries the denomination legend repeated twice. The issue date and serial number appear at lower right, accompanied by a manuscript countersignature. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour letterpress reverse with a central vignette against a light blue ground, showing a closely packed column of soldiers in historical Dessau military uniform — spiked helmets, drums, and rifles — marching in formation beneath a bold red sky, with an officer on horseback at left. The central scene is framed by a geometric border in red, yellow, and black with the text 'So leben wir' repeated vertically on both lateral margins. A yellow header band at the top carries the title inscription, and a pale text panel at the bottom contains four lines of verse in Gothic script. A variety number '1' appears at lower right of the central vignette. |
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Dessau's 1921 emergency issue belongs to the vast Weimar-era Notgeld wave — tens of thousands of distinct municipal notes printed between 1918 and 1922 when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Most cities contracted local commercial printers rather than established security printers, and Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was exactly that sort of regional press: a municipal print shop with no particular specialization in currency work.
The DeNG 1/2#266.1-2 reference indicates two distinct varieties within this issue, likely differentiated by a serial number, color shade, or minor typographic variation rather than separate print runs.