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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bunzlau (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1918-1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange-red on cream paper, the obverse is laid out in a text-dominated letterpress design with a decorative guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination numeral '50' appears in circular guilloche cartouches at upper left and upper right, each inscribed 'Pfg.', flanking a central oval vignette with the legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig / in bar' in bold Gothic script. Below, a five-line redemption text in German cursive script states the validity conditions and issuing authority, dated 'Bunzlau, den 1. Juli 1918' and signed by 'Der Magistrat', with the validity line 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1920' and the issuer legend 'Stadt Bunzlau' in large ornamental Gothic lettering at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg. |
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Bunzlau — now Bolesławiec in southwestern Poland — was a Silesian market town better known for its distinctive salt-glazed brown pottery than for its municipal finances. This notgeld was issued by the Magistrat under the emergency small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce from 1917 onward, a crisis caused partly by the hoarding of metal coinage as base metals were requisitioned for war production.
Municipal issues from Silesian towns of this size were typically printed by local jobbing printers on whatever paper stock was available, which accounts for the variation in paper weight and color found across surviving examples of this series.