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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Schönebeck an der Elbe |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown on buff notgeld note with a fine guilloche underprint across the entire field; at centre, a lightly tinted vignette of a town gate with twin towers serves as the focal design element, over which the denomination legend is set in bold Gothic letterpress. In the lower left, a circular official seal of the Magistrat zu Schönebeck an der Elbe is printed in brown ink alongside a manuscript authorisation signature, while a redemption clause in small letterpress text runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The left half of the reverse carries a bold woodcut-style vignette in dark brown on cream, portraying a panoramic riverside scene with an industrial bridge, factory chimneys, church steeples, and a figure in a rowing boat in the foreground; the artist's monogram 'FB' appears in the lower left corner of the vignette, with the printer's imprint at its base. The right half is divided by a cartouche containing the large numeral '50' flanked by two five-pointed stars, with the series designation 'REIHE Q' below and the serial number prefix 'Nr' above, all set against a fine guilloche ground. |
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Schönebeck an der Elbe was a mid-sized salt-producing town on the Elbe south of Magdeburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own emergency paper during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward as metal coinage disappeared from circulation. The Magistrat turned to Gebrüder Wullstein, a local printing house, rather than one of the major specialized Notgeld printers, which is typical of smaller Saxony-Anhalt issuers who kept production within the community.
Wullstein-printed Notgeld from Schönebeck tends to show simpler typographic execution than contemporary issues from Berlin or Leipzig houses.