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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neisse (City of Neisse, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-grey on a pale buff ground and is framed by a fine guilloche border with corner rosettes. At centre top, the municipal coat of arms of Neisse — a crenellated tower surmounting a quartered shield charged with fleurs-de-lis — is flanked by the issuer legend STADT and NEISSE in large bold capitals. The denomination numeral 50 appears twice in large type within engine-turned rosette vignettes left and right, with PFENNIG centred between them; below, a boxed payment clause, the place-and-date line NEISSE, im Jahre 1919, a serial number in series D, and two manuscript facsimile signatures under the designation Der Magistrat complete the face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and presents a plain, unadorned paper surface with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the emergency small-change notgeld issues of the period. |
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Neisse — now Nysa in southwestern Poland — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Kleingeldersatz (small-change substitute) notes in 1919 as coin shortages, a hangover from wartime metal requisitioning, left everyday transactions unworkable. The Stadt Neisse issues were locally authorized emergency instruments, not Reichsbank paper, and circulated purely within the town's economic orbit.
Notgeld of this type was typically redeemable within a fixed window; municipalities that failed to redeem on time occasionally issued successor series to cover the liability. Whether Neisse did so is worth checking against the full series.