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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Haupt- und Handelsstadt Frankfurt an der Oder |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with a dark brown border bearing the legend 'HAUPT- UND HANDELSSTADT FRANKFURT A.O.' running along all four outer margins in large spaced capitals. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Frankfurt an der Oder — an eagle above a gateway and cockerel in red and black — is set within a shield, surmounted by the Gothic-script inscription 'FRANK-FURT A.O. Magistrat'. Flanking the arms are two symmetrical tall stylised pennant or standard vignettes in dark ink, each accompanied by the denomination '50' in red above and 'Pf.' in bold Gothic lettering below; two manuscript signatures of Magistrat officials appear at the lower centre, with a three-part validity notice in cursive script reading 'Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrates zur Zahlung bei den städtischen Kassen'. |
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| Obverse lettering | HAUPT UND HANDELS STADT FRANKFURT A.O. 50 Pf. FRANK-FURT A.O. Magistrat Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrates zur Zahlung bei den städtischen Kassen |
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Frankfurt an der Oder's municipal government issued this Notgeld note during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922, when the Reichsbank's currency was losing purchasing power faster than it could be printed. Local authorities across Germany stepped in with their own emergency scrip to keep small transactions functioning — the Magistrat here being one of hundreds of municipal issuers doing exactly that.
The designer credit "Jochem" is uncommon enough in the Notgeld corpus that attribution remains thin. The DeNG reference groups this under variants 1-3/4, suggesting at least minor printing or serial differences across the run.