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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Calbe an der Saale |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce, Künstlerdruck, Glauchau, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green, teal, blue, and ochre tones within a decorative Art Nouveau border of stylised vine tendrils and foliage. Two juxtaposed vignettes fill the upper field: on the left, a moonlit nocturnal landscape with trees, a bridge, and distant buildings beneath a full yellow moon; on the right, a cloaked watchman figure seen from behind, armed with a halberd, standing before an ivy-covered stone wall. The city arms of Calbe appear at lower left in a small shield, and a yellow ribbon cartouche below the scenes bears a two-line verse in Gothic script. The printer's imprint is inscribed in small type along the lower margin. A plate number '6' appears in the upper right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Wohl hält er treulich seine Wacht, Nur weint vor Scham er, kommt die Nacht! Rats Druckerei R. Dulce, Künstlerdruck, Glauchau. |
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Calbe an der Saale was a small industrial town in the Prussian province of Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, its local government was forced into issuing Notgeld as the wartime metal shortage made copper and nickel coinage effectively disappear from circulation. The Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau handled a considerable volume of municipal emergency issues during this period — the "Künstlerdruck" designation indicates an art-print process, a step above plain letterpress work.
Calbe's issues from this year are not among the rarer Saxony Notgeld pieces, but the Dulce imprint is a reliable marker of print quality.