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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Colditz (City Council of Colditz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red and cream letterpress design with a decorative geometric border enclosing the central vignette of the Colditz city coat of arms — a crenellated gateway tower with a lion shield and flanking heraldic flags — surrounded by the circular legend 'WAPPEN DER STADT COLDITZ SACHSEN'. Denomination numeral '50' appears in circular cartouches at left and right, with 'Gutschein über 50 Pf.' in the upper left and 'Stadt Colditz' in the upper right. Lower left carries the validity clause 'Gültig bis auf Widerruf durch öffentliche Bekanntmachung', and lower right bears the issue date 'Colditz, den 1. September 1921' with the authority line 'Der Stadtrat' and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-green and olive letterpress design with an ornate foliate border of interlaced leaf motifs and corner rosettes. A central oval vignette presents a landscape view of Colditz Castle (Colditzer Schloß) rising above wooded hillside, signed 'Joh. Hoppe' in the lower right margin of the vignette. The denomination '50' appears in circular cartouches at left and right, while the four corners of the field carry a two-part rhyming verse praising the town: 'Colditz, die liebliche Mulden-Stadt, / Viel Berge, Täler und Waldung hat.' at left and 'Man kann's nit beschreiben lieber Mann, / Komm her, u. seh' dir's selber an.' at right. A series letter 'L' is printed within a small oval at top centre above the vignette title 'Colditzer Schloß'. |
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Colditz issued this Notgeld series in 1921 under the same municipal authority that administered the town's medieval castle — the same structure that would gain entirely different notoriety two decades later as Oflag IV-C. The Stadtrat had no way of knowing that, of course, and the note reflects nothing more than the acute small-change shortage that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency during the inflationary spiral of the early Weimar years.
Joh. Hoppe designed the series locally, which was unusual — most comparable Kleinstädte contracted out to specialist printers in Leipzig or Dresden rather than working with local designers.