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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Zörbig (City of Zörbig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1#1475.4a-9/10 |
| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress Notgeld note with a blue vertical-line underprint and ivy-leaf border in green and red framing the entire design. At centre, a vignette of the Zörbig town tower rises between two circular medallions: the left medallion contains the city arms with an angelic supporter, and the right bears the circular legend of the Sparkasse der Stadt Zoerbig with a heraldic shield. A central diamond cartouche carries the large denomination numeral '50' in white on black, with the Pfennig sign below. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT ZÖRBIG / EINLÖSBAR BEI DER STADTSPARKASSE / ZÖRBIG BIS 30. SEPT. 1921 / KURATORIUM DER SPARKASSE DER STADT ZOERBIG / H. SCHIEBEL – BITTERFELD – 21. / BERNDT PÖKEL / ROSAHL WEPS / BANDMANN / SCHAF / 50 |
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Zörbig is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The H. Schiebel print shop in nearby Bitterfeld handled production for several local issuers in the region, which is why the presswork on these small-denomination notes tends to be competent rather than the elaborate artistic Notgeld produced by larger printers chasing the collector market.
The reference suffix "a-9/10" suggests this belongs to a paired issue — two notes sharing a common series designation, a common practice among municipal issuers filing under a single authorization.