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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bitterfeld (City of Bitterfeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT BITTERFELD 50 PF PFENNIG DER MAGISTRAT HAL. TURM ERB. A 1536 ABGEB. 1873 ALT. RATHAUS ERB. ANNO 1606 ABGEB. 1865 EINLOESBAR BEI DER STADTSPAR KASSE BITTERFELD BIS 1 MON. N.D. AUFKUND. DIESER 5 1921 |
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| Reverse lettering | BITTERFELD STAADT BITTERFELD HALLE BERLIN LEIPZIG MAGDEBURG SEHN WIR UNS NICHT IN DIESER WELT, SO SEHN WIR UNS IN BITTERFELD 50 1830 Berlin Magdeburg |
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Bitterfeld's 1921 Notgeld issue arrived at the peak of Germany's postwar small-change crisis, when municipal and corporate bodies across the Reich were printing their own emergency fractional currency because Reichsbank coin simply wasn't circulating. The city leaned on a local designer — H. Schiebel — rather than one of the major Notgeld printing houses, which was common enough among smaller municipalities trying to cut costs.
Bitterfeld was already a significant industrial chemical center by this date, dominated by the electrochemical and lignite-processing industries that would define the region for the rest of the century. Whether that industrial identity influenced Schiebel's design choices is recorded nowhere I can confirm with certainty.
Collector demand for Bitterfeld Notgeld is modest — the series was neither scarce in issue nor particularly unusual in denomination.