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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Mittelwalde (City of Mittelwalde, Lower Silesia) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue and green on cream paper, the obverse bears the bold letterpress inscription NOTGELD / STADT MITTELWALDE at the top within a decorative dotted border frame. The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Mittelwalde — a shield enclosing a forested landscape with conifers and a stream — flanked by scrollwork cartouches and denomination panels reading 50 / Pf on each side in large numerals. Two manuscript signatures appear below the arms beneath the legend DER MAGISTRAT:, with a validity clause in a lower rectangular panel reading GILTIG BIS 3 MONATE NACH AUFKÜNDIGUNG. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD STADT MITTELWALDE 50 Pf DER MAGISTRAT: GILTIG BIS 3 MONATE NACH AUFKÜNDIGUNG |
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Mittelwalde — now Międzylesie in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian border town whose municipality issued this note as part of the broader Kleingeldersatz emergency coinage that swept German-speaking territories from roughly 1916 onward. The acute shortage of circulating small coinage during the First World War forced thousands of German municipalities, companies, and institutions to print their own fractional paper, and Stadt Mittelwalde was among the more minor issuers — making surviving examples less common than those from larger Silesian towns like Breslau or Görlitz.
After the war, most Notgeld of this type was redeemed and pulped, though many collectors hoarded issues specifically to prevent redemption, which complicates any attempt to assess true surviving quantities.