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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ehrenfriedersdorf (City Council of Ehrenfriedersdorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width polychrome vignette in a regional illustrative style, occupying the greater part of the note, showing the legendary Saxon poacher Karl Stülpner seated against a pine tree at the Greifenstein rock formation, rifle resting on his shoulder and a fallen stag lying beside him amid dense forest undergrowth. The header 'NOTGELD der Stadt EHRENFRIEDERSDORF' runs across the top in bold gothic type, with the denomination '50' in large numerals at the upper right. A lower decorative panel with oak-leaf motifs carries the dialect verse inscription 'Wu de Walder hamlich rauschen' to the left and 'Karl Stülpner am Greifenstein.' to the right. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD der Stadt EHRENFRIEDERSDORF 50 ℘ Wu de Walder hamlich rauschen Karl Stülpner am Greifenstein. |
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Ehrenfriedersdorf is a small mining town in the Erzgebirge — the Ore Mountains of Saxony — with a tin and silver extraction history stretching back to the twelfth century. This 50 Pfennig Notgeld was issued in 1921 during the severe coin shortage that followed Germany's wartime metal requisitions and postwar economic dislocation. Municipal councils across Germany filled the gap with locally printed emergency scrip, most of it never redeemed before the hyperinflation of 1922–23 rendered the face values meaningless.
Erzgebirge Notgeld series are frequently collected as regional sets. Ehrenfriedersdorf's issues tend to reference local mining heritage.