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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 028838 50 Fünfzig Pfennige 50 Gültig im Bezirk des Bezirksverbandes der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg bis zum 31. Dezember 1918. Der Bezirksverband der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg |
| Reverse description | A full-field repeated text underprint reading BEZIRKSVERBAND SCHWARZENBERG in small capitals covers the entire surface. At centre, an oval vignette encloses a traditional Erzgebirge miner (Bergmann) in regional costume, holding a candelabra with lit candles in each hand against a background of fir trees. The denomination numeral 50 appears in large type flanking the vignette to the left and right. |
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Schwarzenberg is a small mining town in the Erzgebirge, and this note is one of hundreds of Kleingeldscheine issued across Saxony in 1918 as low-denomination coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or requisitioned for the war effort. The issuing body, the Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg, was a district administrative unit of the Saxon Kingdom, and its authority to emit emergency paper was entirely de facto rather than formally legislated.
The "Königlichen" designation is worth noting: by the time many of these notes actually circulated, the Saxon monarchy had been abolished — November 1918 — making the royal title on the paper an immediate anachronism.