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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Leopoldshall |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0794.2a-2/3 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed notgeld on cream paper with an overall green tone, centred on a municipal coat of arms — a crowned escutcheon bearing a scales motif — flanked by crossed miners' hammers and surmounted by the mining salutation 'Glück auf!'; full-length vignettes of a kali miner with a rake and a uniformed pit official occupy the left and right margins respectively. The denomination '50 Pfg.' appears in large numerals at each lower corner, while the lower panel carries the date 'Leopoldshall, den 25. Juli 1921', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', a manuscript signature, and a serial number in a ruled cartouche above the printer's imprint. A four-line verse extolling local potash and rock-salt production fills the central text field in Gothic typeface. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Leopoldshal i.Anh. 50 Pfennig. Bremsschachtförderung. etwa 450 m unter Tage Kali- und Steinsalzgewinnung. |
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Leopoldshall was a small industrial town in Saxony-Anhalt whose economy ran almost entirely on potash mining — the Stassfurt-Leopoldshall deposit was among the richest in the world at the time. The 1921 notgeld wave hit hard here as everywhere else in Weimar Germany, with municipalities scrambling to cover the chronic coin shortage that postwar inflation had produced. The Magistrat issued this piece through Louis Koch of Halberstadt, a regional printer responsible for a significant volume of municipal emergency currency across the Harz area during this period.
Leopoldshall was absorbed into the neighboring city of Staßfurt in 1922, making this among the last official instruments issued under the town's independent municipal authority.