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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wasserleben (Municipality of Wasserleben) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels within a decorative rope-twist border, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in the upper corners. The wide central vignette, signed by the artist E. Heise, presents a view of the local village church with a red-tiled roof and tower set among trees, rendered in a folkloristic watercolour style. The left panel contains a figure of a man in 19th-century rural dress and top hat, while the right panel shows a woman in traditional regional costume with a striped cape; a three-part motto in Gothic script runs along the lower edge. |
| Reverse lettering | Die gute Mit Gott freie, ohne Gott Knechte alte Zeit |
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Wasserleben is a small village in the Harz district, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld partly out of necessity — the postwar coin shortage was acute — and partly because the Notgeld craze had by then become a genuine collecting phenomenon, with municipalities printing attractive small-denomination notes knowing philatelists would absorb the surplus. A. W. Zickfeldt in Osterwieck was a regional printer well-positioned to serve these Harz-area communities, handling multiple local issues during the period.
Designer E. Heise is credited on the series — an unusual transparency for Notgeld of this scale.