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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Jeßnitz, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The face is divided into three vertical panels on a grey ground. The left panel carries a framed denomination numeral '50' in red script above the inscription 'PFENNIG' on a dark band, with the issue date '1.9.21.' in a ruled box below and the facsimile signature of Der Magistrat beneath. The central panel presents a colour vignette of the 'Altes Haus a. Markt' (Old House on the Market Square), a timber-framed building with a steeply pitched red-tiled roof, captioned below in Gothic script. The right panel bears the municipal shield of Jeßnitz — a crenellated wall with twin towers — in the upper corner, with validity and payment terms in Gothic script below. A horizontal band across the full width carries 'NOTGELD' at left and 'JESSNITZ' at right in bold black letterpress, flanked by 'III. Serie.' notations on each side. The printer's credit 'Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig' appears along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG. III. Serie. NOTGELD JESSNITZ.* 1.9.21. Der Magistrat Gültig bis 1 Mon. n. Abruf. Zahlstelle: Stadtkasse. Der Stadtverdn-Vorst. Altes Haus a. Markt. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig |
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Jeßnitz is a small town on the Mulde river in Anhalt, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Kleingeldersatz issued across Germany in 1921 as chronic coin shortages — driven by metal hoarding and postwar economic dislocation — forced even minor local authorities to print their own fractional currency. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer, not a banknote specialist, and the engraver credit to F. Linde reflects the small-firm contracting typical of Notgeld production at this scale.
Jeßnitz issues from this period are not widely documented in depth, and Forker-printed municipal notes can show variable ink saturation across the run.