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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Burg an der Wupper (City of Burg an der Wupper) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on smooth, firm white paper, the obverse carries a line-engraved panoramic vignette of the hilltop town of Burg an der Wupper with its castle silhouette and spired towers set against a hatched sky. To the upper right, a decorative ribbon scroll bears the town name in Fraktur script, overlapping a circular municipal seal reading 'BURG B.M. SIEGEL ET FREIHEIT' with a heraldic lion device at centre. The lower panel contains the denomination numeral '50' in ornate frames to each side, with the issuing authority text, date '1.XII.21', the title 'Der Bürgermeister', and a manuscript facsimile signature, all enclosed within a scrollwork border band noting validity 'Gültig bis 1.IV.22'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Bergfried mit Schildmauer |
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Burg an der Wupper — a small textile town in the Bergisches Land, later absorbed into Solingen in 1975 — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period. Municipal and corporate issuers flooded the market with Kleingeldersatz, and towns like Burg produced their own series simply because Reichsbank coin had been hoarded or melted long before inflation reached its catastrophic peak.
The DeNG reference places this firmly in the catalogued Notgeld corpus. The 1921 date is significant — by then the first wave of emergency issues had subsided, and notes appearing that year were often deliberate collector series rather than genuine stop-gap currency.