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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Schneeberg im Erzgebirge |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 98 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into two vertical fields: the left panel, in blue and black, bears the city arms of Schneeberg — two armoured miners flanking a central shield — above the denomination '50 Pfennig' in white lettering on a black ground. The right panel is executed in olive-gold with a vertical wavy-line guilloche underprint, headed by the Gothic script legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig', below which the Saxon coat of arms appears within a heart-shaped ornamental cartouche. The date '1921', a validity clause, a six-digit serial number, the printer's imprint, and the designer's signature 'R. Römer' occupy the lower portion of the right field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is organised as three vertical panels in black, blue, and olive-gold. Each flanking panel presents a full-length figure of a traditional Erzgebirge miner in folk costume carrying tools, rendered in white outline against a black ground within a blue dot-rule border. The broad central panel contains a landscape vignette in olive-gold and black of the Rosental district of Schneeberg — rustic buildings, bare trees, a church tower, and a garden path — with the place-name 'Rosental' inscribed in Gothic lettering along the lower edge. |
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Schneeberg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German emergency coinage, when municipal authorities were printing locally rather than waiting on central supply. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a workhorse printer of Saxon small-denomination notes during this period — competent, regional, unremarkable in ambition.
Schneeberg itself had been a significant silver-mining town since the late fifteenth century, though by 1921 that was distant history. Designer R. Römer is otherwise unattested in the major Notgeld catalogues.