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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Quedlinburg-Land (District of Quedlinburg-Land) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in black, ochre, and violet tones, with a central arch-shaped vignette containing a detailed line-art view of the Kreishaus Quedlinburg, a Gothic Revival administrative building rendered with architectural precision. Decorative floral and foliate borders in Art Nouveau style frame all four corners, with the denomination numeral "50" repeated in ornate roundels at the lower left and right. The caption "Kreishaus Quedlinburg" appears beneath the vignette, and the issuer legend "Notgeld von Quedlinburg-Land" runs along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Kreishaus Quedlinburg Notgeld von Quedlinburg-Land 50 |
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Quedlinburg-Land was one of hundreds of German rural districts that issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Kreis-level issues are among the more obscure within the Notgeld spectrum, typically produced in short print runs for purely local use and rarely traveling far beyond the issuing district's own cashiers and tradespeople.
District-level issuers like Quedlinburg-Land had no central banking infrastructure, so production was usually contracted to a regional printer. Redemption periods were short, survival rates unpredictable.