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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weißenfels (City of Weißenfels) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark grey-toned Notgeld note with a red border frame. The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Weißenfels — an orange shield bearing a black lion above a twin-towered church facade — set within a circular wreath of laurel and oak branches, surrounded by the legend "STADT WEISSENFELS" and the date "M 5 47". Flanking the central arms are two starburst roundels in orange and grey, each carrying the denomination numeral "50" in red with "PFG" below, similarly encircled by foliate wreaths. The heading "Notgeld der Stadt Weissenfels" appears in decorative Fraktur script at the top, with "Ausgegeben: 1921" to the left and "a.d. Saale" to the right; the validity clause "Gültig bis vier Wochen nach der Ungültigkeitserklärung im hiesigen Amtsblatt. Der Magistrat:" runs along the lower portion, with a facsimile signature cartouche at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Light-toned note with a decorative border in orange and black. The central oval vignette, rendered in a linear illustrative style by Boy Paysen, shows a standing male figure in early 19th-century dress presenting a tray to a woman standing at a stove, alluding to the hardships of the inflation era. Historic shoe vignettes — a men's shoe ("Herrenschuh") to the upper left and a ladies' shoe ("Damenschuh") to the upper right — reference Weißenfels's renowned leather and shoe industry, with the years "1720" and "1820" inscribed beside them. Denomination panels reading "50" in red on ochre grounds appear at left and right, and a small architectural vignette of the Geleitshaus appears at the lower centre, flanked by two humorous rhyming verses in Fraktur script referencing economic hardship. |
| Reverse lettering | Herrenschuh Damenschuh 1720 1820 50 50 Leider folgt der Konzunktur Meist die Krise auf der Spur. Und statt Salzknochen und Bier giebts Kartoffelsuppe schier. Geleitshaus K. Lüders. |
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