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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vienenburg (Municipality of Vienenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Buchdruckerei Adolf Sieburg, Vienenburg, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Vibrantly printed in orange and black letterpress, the reverse carries a central scenic vignette divided by the trunk of a large oak tree. To the left stands a medieval knight in armour bearing a lance and shield, with a historic castle tower visible in the background; to the right, a modern industrial worker rests beside a large cogwheel and gear, with factory chimneys rising behind him — juxtaposing the town's medieval heritage with its industrial present. A circular orange cartouche at the base of the oak trunk bears the denomination '50 Pfg' in bold Gothic numerals, while the place name 'Vienenburg a. H.' appears on a banner at the top, and a two-line motto in Fraktur script runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Vienenburg a. H. 50 Pfg Nur der sich bedient der natürlichen Kraft, wirklich Wahres und Großes schafft! |
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Vienenburg sits at the northern foot of the Harz mountains, a small rail junction town whose economic importance in 1921 was tied almost entirely to the local iron ore trade. Like hundreds of German municipalities that year, it resorted to printing its own small-denomination scrip — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation, themselves hoarded or melted as the mark's purchasing power collapsed.
Buchdruckerei Adolf Sieburg was a local print shop, not a specialist security printer. That matters: these notes carry no watermark, no intaglio work, and no meaningful anti-counterfeiting features — though counterfeiting Notgeld of this value was rarely worth the effort.