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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Wittenberg |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red note with a dashed border frame. At left, an oval vignette contains a woodcut-style portrait bust of Emperor Charles V in period attire with a feathered hat, accompanied by a facsimile signature below. The right panel carries the issuer title in ornate Gothic blackletter script, a serial number in blue, the validity date, and the magistrate's manuscript signature. A decorative side strip at right bears repeating denomination numerals '50' within ornamental cartouches. |
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| Reverse description | Grey-toned note with a large central vignette rendered in a bold illustrative style, showing a mounted procession of armoured knights on horseback passing through Wittenberg, with Gothic church towers and red-roofed buildings in the background. The artist's signature 'Christophe' appears at the upper left of the vignette. A decorative right-hand strip carries repeated '50' numerals, an ornate denomination monogram, and the city arms of Wittenberg within a panel. |
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Wittenberg's 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the last and most elaborate wave of German municipal emergency money — by this point, towns were commissioning genuinely artistic series rather than the crude wartime substitutes of 1914–18. The designer credit "BHD" on the obverse remains unresolved in the standard references; "Christophe" on the reverse is similarly obscure, suggesting locally contracted artists rather than one of the major Leipzig or Berlin commercial studios.
Dr. Nottebohm signed as Magistrat authority. The Wittenberg series was redeemed in the general collapse of small-denomination Notgeld that followed the hyperinflation emergency issues of late 1922 and 1923, when the Reichsbank finally forced municipal paper out of circulation.