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50 Pfennig Neusalz a. Oder
| Issuer | Neusalz (Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a raised pearl border enclosing the square flan, a central circular pearl border frames the principal device: a figure of a man seated in a sailboat with billowing sails, rendered in low relief. Surrounding the inner circle, the municipal legend arcs around the full circumference, reading STADTGEMEINDE NEUSALZ (ODER), separated at the base by a cluster of three small floral ornaments. The overall composition reflects the municipal seal tradition common to German Notgeld issues of the early Weimar period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Neusalz an der Oder issued this iron notgeld piece in 1920 as part of the wave of municipal emergency coinage that swept Germany following the near-total breakdown of small-change supply after World War I. The Reichsbank could not meet demand, and hundreds of German towns — Neusalz among them — took matters into their own hands. Iron was a pragmatic if unglamorous choice, copper and nickel still being in short supply or reserved for higher-priority use.
Neusalz itself is now Nowa Sól, transferred to Poland under the postwar border settlements of 1945.