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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Quedlinburg (City of Quedlinburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG GÜLTIG 22.-23. APRIL 1922 JUBILÄUMSGUTSCHEIN DER STADT QUEDLINBURG ZUR TAUSENDJAHRFEIER 922 1922 H. MEYERDING QUEDLINBURG |
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| Reverse lettering | Einzug der Preußen 1698 Nach Otto Markus 50PF 50PF |
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Quedlinburg's 1922 Notgeld series was designed by Otto Markus and printed locally by H. Meyerding — an arrangement typical of the small-municipality emergency currency boom that peaked in Germany between 1921 and 1923, when hyperinflation outpaced the Reichsbank's ability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage and notes. Hundreds of German towns commissioned their own series, often treating the exercise as much as a revenue source from collector sales as a genuine monetary stopgap.
Quedlinburg had particular cultural capital to draw on — the town's Romanesque collegiate church and its status as a Ottonian imperial burial site gave local artists ready material. Whether Markus leaned on that history is visible in the imagery, but the Meyerding printing is competent lithographic work, not exceptional.