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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Quedlinburg (City of Quedlinburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black and brown on a light ground with a grey guilloche underprint forming the central field, the reverse bears a central vignette in fine line work illustrating three costumed figures — the so-called 'Münzenberger' — descending toward the town, above which a cluster of half-timbered buildings on the rocky Münzenberg hill is rendered in detail. Two rectangular cartouches in the lower corners each carry the denomination '50 Pfennig' in bold letterpress, while flanking vertical columns in Fraktur script contain verse inscriptions, with small vignettes of a stork in flight and a rooftop scene occupying the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Münzenberger brav und bieder, Sie eilen froh zur Stadt hernieder. Um alt und jung hier mit den neuen Beliebten Weisen zu erfreuen. 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig |
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Quedlinburg's 1922 Notgeld issue was printed locally by H. Meyerding, a Quedlinburg firm — unusual for small-denomination Notgeld, which was more often farmed out to established lithographers in Leipzig or Berlin. Printing in-house kept costs down during the hyperinflationary spiral that made even 50 Pfennig notes economically awkward to produce almost immediately after authorization.
Quedlinburg had issued earlier Notgeld series in 1919–1920; by 1922 the municipal issues were a formality, quickly overtaken by denomination obsolescence within months of printing.