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50 Pfennig - Bad Weixdorf-Lausa
| Issuer | Municipality of Bad Weixdorf-Lausa |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Thickness | 3.3 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a centrally placed acorn atop a woven or hatched cup, evoking an oak motif symbolic of civic identity. Two curved wheat or grain stalks flank the central device, sweeping upward and outward to either side, their tips adorned with small foliate sprays. Radiating lines or stylized sunbursts fill the lateral fields behind the stalks, creating a decorative heraldic composition. The entire design is rendered in low relief on the unglazed brown porcelain surface. A beaded border encircles the design to the rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bad Weixdorf-Lausa was a small Saxon spa municipality that, like hundreds of German towns in 1921, turned to Notgeld to plug the gap left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination metal coinage. Porcelain issues were a regional specialty rooted in Saxony's deep ceramic industry infrastructure — the Meissen tradition made fired clay a practical, if unconventional, substitute. The brown coloration of this piece distinguishes it from the white and painted variants catalogued under the same Scheuch reference group, indicating a distinct firing or clay composition choice rather than a surface treatment.