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50 Pfennig Kreissparkasse Herzberg
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Herzberg (Elster) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green crosshatched underprint on white satin paper, with large bold numerals '50' flanking a central rectangular vignette of a church tower in Herzberg, rendered in brown letterpress. A decorative ribbon scroll at the top carries the issuer inscription in Gothic script, while a second scroll at the base bears the redemption authority text and date, all framed by a black border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf(4) In diesem Amtshaus zu Schweinitz einen Propheten-Traum hatte Kurfürst Friedr. der Weise nachts vor Allerheiligen 1517 Schweinitz Anno 1620 |
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Herzberg an der Elster is a small town in the Elbe-Elster district of Brandenburg, and its Kreissparkasse — a county-level savings bank, not a central or commercial institution — was among thousands of local German authorities that issued Notgeld during the 1920–1922 inflationary period when small-change coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The designer credit to Hans Spitsmann is notable: he produced artwork for a number of Notgeld series across the region, and his involvement suggests the issue was commissioned rather than assembled from stock imagery.
The DeNG reference places this firmly within the catalogued German Notgeld corpus, but series 1/2 items from minor county issuers survive in highly variable quantities — many were redeemed quickly and pulped.