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50 Pfennig Tietze and Seidensticker
| Issuer | Firma Tietze & Seidensticker, Penzig (Oberlausitz) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pale green paper, the obverse is framed by an elaborate typographic border composed of geometric and diamond-shaped ornamental units in black letterpress. A header panel bears the inscription '50 PFENNIG 50' in bold serif capitals, below which a large numeral '50' occupies the left field, while the right panel carries the multi-line text 'Notgeld-Schein der Firma Tietze & Seidensticker Penzig O.-L.' in Gothic blackletter. A serial number prefix 'No.' appears at lower left, with the number space left blank. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also on pale green paper, carries an all-typographic design in black letterpress without pictorial vignettes. A central oval cartouche with a roulette-style border contains the bold numeral '50', flanked on each side by ornate Gothic 'Pf.' abbreviations and vertical decorative rules. Above and below, a continuous block of Gothic blackletter text sets out the redemption conditions of the Notgeld issue. |
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Penzig — today Pieńsk, in southwestern Poland — was a small industrial town in Upper Lusatia, and like hundreds of similar communities across Germany, its local businesses issued Notgeld when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation during and after the First World War. Firma Tietze & Seidensticker was almost certainly a textile or manufacturing concern, the dominant industries in that corridor of Oberlausitz, though the firm left little documentary trace beyond its scrip.
Private firm-issued Notgeld of this type was technically illegal under Reichsbank statutes but tolerated out of sheer practical necessity.