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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennige Gutschein Gültig im Bezirk der Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain bis 31. Dezember 1920. Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Amtshauptmann No. |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse with an elaborate guilloche underprint in muted tones filling the entire field, overlaid with the large numeral '50' at upper centre. A rural vignette at lower centre shows a farmer with a horse-drawn plough working a field, with tree motifs flanking the left and right borders, all enclosed within a plain rectangular frame. |
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Grossenhain is a small administrative district in Saxony, and like hundreds of comparable Amtshauptmannschaften across Germany in 1920, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency — Kleingeldscheine — to address the chronic coin shortage that persisted well into the postwar years. The Reich Mint simply could not produce enough small-denomination coinage to meet demand, and local authorities were formally permitted to fill the gap through regional note issues.
These Saxon district issues were typically printed in short runs and redeemed within months. Survival rates vary sharply even among notes from the same series.