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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband Dippoldiswalde |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint on cream paper, with large numeral '50' corner devices at all four corners. The centre carries bold Fraktur lettering for the denomination and issuing authority, below which appears a handwritten facsimile signature above the printed title 'Amtshauptmann'. A validity clause in smaller Fraktur script occupies the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | A letterpress vignette in olive-brown and black occupies the central field, presenting a townscape view of Dippoldiswalde with multi-storey civic buildings in the foreground and a domed baroque church tower rising above the roofline against a clouded sky. Large bold numerals '50' appear in the upper left and upper right corners within a black ruled border, all set against a green-tinted outer surround. |
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Dippoldiswalde is a small administrative district in the Erzgebirge foothills south of Dresden, and its Bezirksverband — the district administrative body — issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce in the early 1920s. Municipal and district authorities across Germany printed their own fractional denominations precisely because the Reichsbank could not keep pace with the collapse in coin availability as inflation accelerated.
At 45 × 28 mm, this is among the smallest format Notgeld pieces produced, likely a cost-cutting measure given the paper rationing that affected smaller issuing bodies in Saxony.