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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Der Magistrat der Stadt Waldenburg i. Schl. |
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| Size | 84 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Der Magistrat Eine halbe Mark der Stadt Waldenburg i. Schl. Serie I 1/2 Mk 50 |
| Reverse description | A simple olive-green border of repeating cross and quatrefoil ornaments encloses the reverse field. The denomination 'Eine halbe Mark' is printed in large red letterpress text across the centre, flanked by red numerals '50' at each corner. Above and below the central denomination, black letterpress text sets out the redemption clause, with a small olive-green heraldic vignette of the city arms — a tree on a shield — centred in the middle field. The issuing authority 'Der Magistrat der Stadt Waldenburg i. Schl.' appears at the foot in black, and the printer's imprint 'Ferdinand Domel's Erben, Waldenburg i. Schl.' is printed below the border. |
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Waldenburg in Schlesien was a coal-mining town, and its notgeld issues reflect the practical desperation of small municipalities forced to produce their own fractional currency during the chronic small-change shortages of 1917–1921. The Magistrat turned to a local printer — Ferdinand Domel's Erben, an established Waldenburg firm — rather than one of the larger specialist notgeld printers, which was common for first-wave utility issues before the collector-oriented "series" notgeld boom inflated production values.
Waldenburg became the Polish city of Wałbrzych after the postwar border adjustments of 1945, when the region's German population was expelled under the Potsdam Agreement.