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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Aken (Elbe), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Warm ochre ground with a red and green ornamental border incorporating decorative floral corner motifs and vertical line-ruled side panels. A central circular vignette reproduces the historic seal of the city of Aken, showing a mitred bishop standing in a Gothic twin-towered gateway and holding a cross-staff, flanked by two shield-bearing heraldic figures, with the Latin legend SIGNETVM BVRGENSIVM VRBIS AQVENSIS FIDELIS FILIAE ECCLESIAE MAGDEBVRGENSIS running around the circumference. To the lower left appears the validity notice in German script, to the lower right the place-and-date inscription 'Aken, i. Oktober 1921' with the manuscript signature of the Magistrat, and a serial number in red below the central seal. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig 50 50 50 50 Schwer beladen durchfurcht der Schlappzug die Fluten der Elbe Hinten am Steuer der Mann grüßt schon die Heimat von fern, Güter führt er heran, von fremden Gestaden geliefert, Aber das köstlichste Gut bleibt ihm die Heimat doch stets. |
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Aken on the Elbe is a small Anhalt town, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is a product of the coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years — municipal authorities across the country scrambled to fill the vacuum left by hoarded metal coinage. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a regional printer that handled a number of these small civic commissions, though it operated well outside the major specialist houses that dominated the Notgeld trade.
Designer C. Krüger is otherwise difficult to trace — likely a local commercial artist rather than a notable figure in the German graphic arts scene of the period.