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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kelbra (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued in two-colour letterpress in green and purple. The upper register carries the title legend within a green band, with a serial number at centre. A large purple central panel bears the denomination in Gothic blackletter script. Flanking the central panel on left and right are two green vignette panels, each containing a stylised dragon or wyvern in white outline. The lower register shows the issuing town name and date at left, the municipal coat of arms at centre bearing a bovine animal, and the magistrate's facsimile signature at right. |
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| Reverse description | Single-colour letterpress vignette in teal-green on cream paper stock, enclosed within a plain double-line border. The central vignette presents a detailed architectural view of the Kyffhäuser Monument atop its wooded hilltop, with the tall tower rising above the arcaded base structure; ruined castle walls are visible to the right. The denomination numeral '50' appears in the upper right corner, and the caption 'KYFFHÄUSER-DENKMAL' is inscribed in the upper left. The issuer name 'STADT KELBRA' is set in bold capitals within a solid banner along the lower margin. |
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Kelbra is a small town in the southern Harz region, and this 1921 Kleingeldschein belongs to the notgeld wave that swept German municipalities after the Reichsbank's coin hoarding crisis of 1919–1921. Small denominations disappeared from circulation almost entirely, forcing even minor Magistrate offices to commission their own emergency fractional scrip. Faber in Magdeburg was a regional workhorse printer for this genre — competent, fast, and used by dozens of municipalities across Saxony-Anhalt.
The DeNG reference suffix ".1" indicates a known variant within the series, worth checking against the type description carefully before cataloging.