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50 Pfennig Volksbibliothek und Lesestuben
| Issuer | City of Brunswick (Braunschweig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 97 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pf. Geld-zetul/ ausgangen bey währender noth- zeyt/ darinnen all gut geld durch den erſchröfflichen Krieg iſt verſchlungen.- Nimbt in dieſſem 1921 jar für beygeſatzten ehrlichen gelds- werth an/ des gemeynen volks bibliotheka und lese-stuben/ auff deme Gewandhause/ in der ſtad zu braunſchweich |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: 50 Pfennig Money note Issued during the time of need All the good money was swallowed up by the exhaustive war. Accepts in this year 1921 for the stated honest money value, the common people library and reading rooms, the cloth hall in the city of Brunswick) |
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Brunswick's 1921 Notgeld issues belong to the tail end of Germany's municipal emergency money experiment, when inflation was accelerating but hyperinflation hadn't yet made small-denomination scrip pointless. This 50 Pfennig piece was issued specifically to benefit the Volksbibliothek und Lesestuben — the public library and reading rooms — an unusual funding mechanism that reflected both the fiscal chaos of the period and the genuine municipal investment in adult literacy infrastructure that characterized many German cities in the Weimar years.
Whether the surcharge model actually transferred funds to the library or simply used the institution's name for legitimacy is not consistently documented across the series.