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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Kirchhain, Niederlausitz |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely covered by a full-bleed multicolour vignette illustrating traditional tanning and leather-working — the trade for which Kirchhain was known as the 'Gerberstadt' — with three artisans working hides at a tanning pit amid half-timbered buildings in the background. In the lower left corner, the denomination numeral '50' in blue is set above a heraldic vignette showing two rampant lions flanking a crowned column, rendered in gold and black. The note is framed by a yellow and black zigzag border with teal dot ornaments at the corners and midpoints. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Kirchhain, now known by its Sorbian name Cherjinka, is a small town in the Niederlausitz region of Brandenburg — and like hundreds of German municipalities during the postwar inflation years, its municipal savings bank issued emergency currency when Reichsmark coinage disappeared from everyday transactions. The Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG in Saalfeld handled a considerable volume of such Notgeld contracts, supplying notes to issuers well outside Thuringia.
The Städtische Sparkasse designation rather than a municipal Kämmerei issuance suggests this note was intended to function as a genuine small-change substitute backed by savings bank reserves, not purely as a collector piece — though the Notgeld market's speculative appetite by 1921 blurred that distinction badly.