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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Döbeln (City of Döbeln) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Notgeld von Döbeln 50 Pfg Neues Rathaus Nicolai Kirche Döbeln 1. Sept. 1921 Gültig bis 30. September 1921 der Stadtrat: No |
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| Reverse lettering | Siegerfreude Der Überfall in der Fastnacht-Nacht 1450 Bestürzung 4 Schleinitz |
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Döbeln's 1921 Notgeld issue was one of thousands of municipal emergency currency series produced across Germany as coin shortages and postwar economic instability forced local authorities to fill the vacuum left by the central monetary system. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a regional jobbing printer that handled Notgeld commissions for multiple Saxon municipalities during this period — not a specialist banknote house, which shows in the relatively modest production quality typical of these civic contracts.
Designer Schleinitz is credited on this series, though documentation on the individual is thin. The 1921 date places this squarely before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1922–23, when Notgeld denominations would balloon into the millions.