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50 Pfennig - Bunzlau
| Issuer | Bunzlau (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT BUNZLAU 19 21 DER GROSSE TOPF (Translation: Money of the Town of Bunzlau 1921 The big pot) |
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| Mintage | 1921 |
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Bunzlau's porcelain notgeld emerged from the catastrophic coin shortage that gripped Germany after World War I, when municipal authorities across the country issued their own emergency currency in whatever materials local industry could supply. Bunzlau had an obvious answer: the town had been a major ceramics center since the 16th century, and its distinctive dark-glazed stoneware — known as Bunzlauer Geschirr — gave local potters both the technical means and the raw material to strike coin-sized discs on short notice.
The dark gray body distinguishes this piece from the white or cream porcelain notgeld produced elsewhere in Saxony and Silesia.