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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat und Städtische Sparkasse Neumarkt (Schlesien) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in blue-grey and dark brown on plain paper, with an elaborate guilloche underprint forming a central oval cartouche surrounded by a lace-like floral border pattern. The denomination numeral '50' appears at the top and bottom within the guilloche field, while the central text in period Fraktur script reads 'Sparmarke über Fünfzig Pfennig', followed by the validity clause and issuing authority lines. Two manuscript signatures appear below, attributed to the Magistrat and the städtische Sparkasse respectively, with the printer's imprint 'Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich) Breslau' in small letterpress at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Sparmarke über Fünfzig Pfennig Gültig bis zwei Jahre nach Friedensschluß Neumarkt (Schlef.), am 15. Oktober 1919. Der Magistrat Die städt. Sparkasse 50 |
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Neumarkt in Silesia — today Środa Śląska in Poland — issued this Notgeld piece in 1919 as the postwar economic collapse made Reichsmark coinage almost impossible to keep in circulation. Hoarding and metal shortages had stripped small denominations from everyday trade, forcing municipal authorities and savings institutions across Germany to paper over the gap with locally issued scrip. The joint authority here — both the Magistrat and the Städtische Sparkasse — is slightly unusual; most comparable issues came from one or the other, not both acting in concert.
Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich) in Breslau handled production for a large number of Silesian Notgeld issues during this period, which makes attribution straightforward but also means the printing quality varies little across the region's output.