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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Jeßnitz, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue of Jeßnitz with an ornate Art Nouveau layout on a diamond-patterned cream ground framed by a thick dark border. A large central oval cartouche bears the bold red denomination numeral '50' flanked by decorative scroll flourishes, with a circular vignette at left showing a twin-towered brick gate, and a circular medallion at right bearing the year '1921'; at the top centre a small roundel inscribed 'ZWEITE SERIE II' separates the curvilinear Gothic script titles 'Notgeld' and 'Jeßnitz'. The lower portion carries a serial number panel, two manuscript signatures, and validity and payment-office inscriptions in period Gothic typeface. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Ruins Salegast 50 Hier wird nicht mehr gesungen, die Lieder sind verklungen. C.G. NAUMANN G.M.B.H. LEIPZIG. |
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Jeßnitz is a small town on the Mulde river in Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency fractional currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had been melting out of circulation since the war. C.G. Naumann of Leipzig was one of the more prolific commercial printers serving this market, producing series for dozens of towns across central Germany during the same period.
Naumann's output was competent but high-volume. Jeßnitz's issue is not among the philatelically fashionable Notgeld series that attracted deliberate collector production.