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50 Pfennig Notgeld-Ausstellung
| Issuer | Leipzig, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 4 September 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN der Notgeld-Ausstellung zu Leipzig vom 27. Aug bis 4. September 1921 Dieser Gutschein hat nur Gültigkeit innerhalb der Ausstellung und wird bis zum 4. Sept. 1921 an der Kasse der Ausstellung gegen Reichsgeld eingetauscht. Entwurf: Werbe P. Fack |
| Reverse description | Black and blue bicolor note with a detailed architectural vignette of the Deutsche Bücherei (German National Library) building in Leipzig, rendered in precise line-engraving style with billowing clouds in the background and foliage at the lower right. The inscription 'Deutsche Bücherei' appears in flowing script at the upper left of the vignette. Below, a dark horizontal band carries the denomination '50 Pfennig 50' in large decorative blue numerals flanking the denomination text in matching script. |
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Leipzig's 1921 Notgeld series was issued partly as a deliberate commercial exercise — municipalities across Weimar Germany had discovered that collectors would hoard attractive small-denomination emergency notes rather than spend them, effectively generating interest-free revenue for the issuer. The "Notgeld-Ausstellung" designation here is unusually self-referential: this note was issued specifically in connection with a Notgeld exhibition, a fair dedicated to the collecting of the very phenomenon it exemplifies.
Leipzig was a natural host for such an event, given its centuries-old role as a trade fair city. The note almost certainly never circulated in any conventional sense.