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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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| Reverse description | Ochre and dark brown bicolour note with a decorative border in golden yellow. The central vignette, rendered in fine black line engraving, presents a detailed architectural view of the south gable (Südgiebel) of the Rathaus Frankfurt an der Oder, its Gothic spires and tracery rising against a billowing cloud background. A ribbon scroll at the foot of the vignette bears the inscription 'Rathaus Frankfurt a.d. Oder Südgiebel' in Gothic script, with the designer's name 'JOCHEM' in the lower right margin. The outer border carries the patriotic motto 'DIE KETTEN REISSEN · ERWACHT · NOT BRICHT EISEN' in spaced capital letters, and the denomination '50 Pf' appears in bold Gothic type in the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | DIE KETTEN REISSEN · ERWACHT · NOT BRICHT EISEN 50 Pf Rathaus Frankfurt a.d. Oder Südgiebel JOCHEM |
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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.