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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eilenburg (City of Eilenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with red and brown letterpress printing. The central vignette presents a portrait bust of composer Franz Abt within an oval wreath of laurel branches tied with a ribbon scroll bearing his name. The bold Gothic-script title 'Gutschein der Stadt Eilenburg' arches across the top in red, flanked by fine ornamental borders. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in red at lower left and lower right, with the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 30. September 1921' at upper left and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' with a manuscript signature at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Warm tan ground with brown and red letterpress printing. The central vignette presents a line-art view of the 'Altes Portal' (Old Portal), an ornate Baroque gateway, enclosed within a bold red oval ring. Decorative cartouches bearing stylised castle vignettes flank the composition at lower left and lower right. A ribbon scroll at the foot carries the legend 'ALTES PORTAL', while two lines of German verse run across the full width at top and bottom of the note. The denomination '50 Pf.' is set in black at upper left and upper right, and the designer's signature 'A. Dickert' appears at upper right. |
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Eilenburg's 1921 Pfennig notgeld was produced locally during a period when municipal and private issuers across Germany were flooding the market with small-denomination emergency currency — the national coinage shortage after the First World War had made fractional transactions genuinely difficult. A. Dickert, the credited designer, was almost certainly a local commercial artist rather than a professional print engraver, which accounts for the regionalist character typical of municipal Saxony notgeld of this period.
The reference DeNG 1/2#0315.1-6/6 suggests this is the sixth variant in a set of six, a common notgeld practice of issuing collectible series to generate premium revenue beyond face value — towns quickly realized hobbyist demand outpaced circulation need.