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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weißenfels (City of Weißenfels) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark-ground Notgeld note printed in black, orange, and red. The centre vignette presents the circular municipal seal of Weißenfels, bearing the city coat of arms — an orange shield with a black lion above a twin-towered church facade — encircled by the legend STADT WEISSENFELS and the date M5 47, flanked by ornate laurel-wreath roundels each carrying the red denomination numeral 50 PFG on a radiate sunburst underprint. The upper inscription reads Notgeld der Stadt Weissenfels in Gothic script, with Ausgegeben: 1921 to the left and a.d. Saale to the right; a validity clause in Gothic lettering occupies the lower portion, closing with Der Magistrat: and a facsimile signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Weissenfels Ausgegeben: 1921 a.d. Saale 50 PFG STADT WEISSENFELS M5 47 Gültig bis vier Wochen nach der Ungültigkeitserklärung im hiesigen Amtsblatt. Der Magistrat: |
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Weißenfels was a mid-sized Saxony-Anhalt town better known for its shoe manufacturing industry than its paper money, but the inflationary pressures of 1921 forced hundreds of German municipalities into issuing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply because the Reichsbank could not supply sufficient small denomination coinage. Boy Paysen was a prolific Notgeld designer of the period, responsible for artwork across numerous municipal issues, which means his involvement here is competent but not exceptional.
The DeNG reference suffix distinctions (.2-3/6) indicate this belongs to a dated series with multiple variants, a common complication for collectors working this material.