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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Quedlinburg (City of Quedlinburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red, black, and grey tones with an ornate foliate and rope border. Upper portion carries the jubilee title inscription in Gothic script on a scroll banner, beneath which an oval vignette presents a panoramic view of Quedlinburg with a group of musicians in traditional costume marching in the foreground. To the left stands a female allegorical figure in regional folk dress holding oak garlands, while to the right a uniformed town crier holds a proclamation scroll bearing the validity notice and the date of April 1922. A lower inscription in Gothic script reads 'Es grüßen die lustigen Münzenberger'. The printer's imprint 'H. MEYERDING QUEDLINBURG' appears below the design. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown, black, and grey tones within a plain ruled border. The central vignette depicts three musicians in period costume passing through an old city gate tower of Quedlinburg, rendered in a detailed illustrative style. Two flanking vertical panels carry verse text in Gothic blackletter script. Small vignettes occupy the upper corners — a dove in flight at upper left and a female figure at upper right. The denomination '50 Pfennig' is stated twice in framed cartouches at the lower left and lower right. A serial number appears at the bottom centre. |
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Quedlinburg's 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the final wave of German municipal emergency money, printed as hyperinflation made Reichsbank notes increasingly inadequate for small transactions. H. Meyerding was a local Quedlinburg printer — not a specialist currency house — which is exactly what you'd expect at this stage of the crisis, when municipalities were contracting with whoever had a press nearby.
Quedlinburg itself had genuine numismatic ambition during the Notgeld years, commissioning attractive regional series earlier in the emergency period. By 1922, practicality had overtaken aesthetics.