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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amtsausschuss Koberg (Amtsbezirk Koberg) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and black on cream paper within a double-rule border. The upper arc carries the legend 'NOTGELD AMTSBEZIRK KOBERG' flanking the large denomination numeral '50' in geometric style above the bold inscription 'PFENNIG'. The central vignette presents a stylised schematic ground plan of the Silkenburg fortification rendered as an abstract spiral and linear motif evoking the archaeological outline of the site, set above horizontal wavy lines suggesting water. A bold folded-ribbon banner at the lower centre bears the inscription 'GRUNDRISS der SILKENBURGI.', with six-pointed star ornaments at the corners. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD AMTSBEZIRK KOBERG 50 PFENNIG GRUNDRISS der SILKENBURGI. |
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| Comments |
Koberg was a small rural district in the Duchy of Lauenburg, and like hundreds of similarly obscure German municipalities it resorted to Notgeld during the acute small-change shortages of 1917–1921. The Amtsausschuss — the district committee — had no issuing tradition whatsoever; this note exists purely because coins had vanished from circulation and central authorities had neither the capacity nor the inclination to plug every local gap.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were among the busiest Notgeld printers of the period, handling commissions from municipalities across northern and central Germany. F. H. Keller of Dresden contributed the design work — a division of labor entirely typical of how these emergency issues were produced at scale and at speed.