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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Quedlinburg (City of Quedlinburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red, black, and grey, with an ornate foliate and ribbon border. At the top, a Gothic script legend in red announces the note as a Jubiläums-Gutschein issued for the 1000th anniversary of the city of Quedlinburg. A central oval vignette presents a panoramic view of the town skyline with figures in festive costume in the foreground, while to the left a female figure in traditional dress holds a garland and to the right a uniformed herald holds a proclamation scroll bearing the denomination and validity dates of 22–23 April 1922. A caption in Gothic script at the foot reads 'Es grüßen die lustigen Münzenberger', and the printer's imprint 'H. Meyerding Quedlinburg' appears below the border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig Die Jugend kommt herbei im Lauf, Und alle Fenster fliegen auf. Ein jeder, hat er auch Verdruß, Erfreut sich an dem Kunstgenuß. |
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Quedlinburg's 1922 Notgeld issue was printed locally by H. Meyerding, which was common practice for smaller municipalities during the hyperinflationary spiral that made centrally issued coinage functionally useless almost overnight. By 1922, the Reichsbank had lost any practical ability to supply small-denomination coins to provincial towns, forcing hundreds of German cities to commission their own emergency scrip — legally tolerated but technically unauthorized.
Quedlinburg itself had strong historic footing as a former imperial residence city, which local authorities sometimes leaned into when commissioning Notgeld designs, making these issues attractive to contemporary collectors — a secondary market that some towns actively exploited by printing more than circulation actually required.