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50 Pfennig Kreissparkasse Herzberg
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Herzberg (Elster), Kreis Schweinitz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned notgeld printed on plain paper with a fine guilloche dot underprint covering the entire field. Large numeral '50' appears to the left and right of a central rectangular vignette showing a view of Schönewalde with a church tower and adjacent buildings rendered in a woodcut style. The issuing authority inscription appears on a decorative ribbon scroll at the top, with the place of issue and date on a lower scroll, signed by the Kreisausschuss. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and dark blue bicolor notgeld with a wide central vignette in an illustrative woodcut style, signed by the artist 'Edas Herrmann', showing a monk reclining in bed by candlelight while a robed figure seated at right writes by quill. Text borders surround the vignette on all four sides in Gothic script, referencing the Schlosskirche zu Wittenberg. Corner panels carry supplementary text set vertically. |
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Kreis Schweinitz was a rural administrative district in the Prussian Province of Saxony, and its savings bank — the Kreissparkasse Herzberg — was among the thousands of local institutions that stepped into the vacuum left by the Reichsbank's inability to keep small-denomination coin in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. By 1921, 50-Pfennig coins had effectively disappeared from everyday commerce, hoarded or melted, and notgeld of this type was the practical answer.
The DeNG reference places this squarely in the documented Saxony provincial series. Herzberg an der Elster remains a small town; the issuing authority never had the resources or inclination for elaborate design commissions.