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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 lettering | Jubiläums-Gutschein Zur 1000-Jahr-Feier der Stadt Quedlinburg Diesen Schein ist gültig für 50 Pfennig in d. ält. am 22 u. 23 April 1922 Des Magistrat voraus Es grüßen die lust'gen Münzenberger H. MEYERDING QUEDLINBURG |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central vignette rendered in brown and grey tones, illustrating a street scene in old Quedlinburg with the twin-spired Stiftskirche visible in the background and itinerant musicians performing in the foreground amid half-timbered houses. To the left and right of the central vignette, boxed Gothic-script verses are set in two columns, with the denomination "50 Pfennig" printed in framed cartouches at the lower left and lower right corners; small pictorial vignettes of a half-timbered gable and a figure at a window occupy the upper corners. |
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Quedlinburg's 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the final surge of German municipal emergency currency before the Reichsbank's stabilization efforts made such local printing redundant. H. Meyerding was a local commercial printer — not a specialist currency house — which was entirely typical of smaller Notgeld runs, where civic pride in design often outpaced technical printing quality.
Quedlinburg had particular reason to assert civic identity in print: the town's Romanesque collegiate church and its status as a Kaiserpfalz under Henry the Fowler gave local authorities ready iconographic material for the series. Whether they used it is another matter — the catalog record says nothing, and Meyerding left no detailed production records.