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50 Pfennig with Ausgabe and Reihe
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Freiberg i. Sa. (City Council of Freiberg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Notgeld note is printed in green and pink tones, with the denomination numeral '50' rendered in large Gothic script within a central guilloche panel, flanked on the left by a standing miner in traditional dress and on the right by a female figure holding a stringed instrument, both rendered in letterpress. The text 'Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig' appears above the central vignette, while the validity clause and issuing authority 'Der Stadtrat zu Freiberg i. Sa.' with a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister appear below. Patriotic verse runs along all four borders in a decorative frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | HÄUFT AUF DAS GELD BIS HOCH ZUM RAND - UND BRINGT ES STOLZ DEM VATERLAND - MIT HIEBEN ZAHLT DIE FEINDE AUS - UND MIT PAPIER DEN FREUND ZU HAUS. Fünfzig Pfennig Stadt Freiberg Dieser Schein wird von allen städtischen Kassen eingelöst. Ausgabe Reihe 50 & |
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Freiberg's silver mining history made it one of Saxony's wealthier towns, which gives some irony to this 1918 Notgeld issue — the city that had once supplied the Saxon electors with metal currency was reduced to printing emergency paper scrip because of wartime coin hoarding. The Ausgabe and Reihe designations on this type indicate batch and series tracking, a system the Stadtrat used to manage successive printings as demand continued through the final year of the war.
Krey und Sommerlad operated out of Niedersedlitz, a Dresden suburb that handled a significant volume of Saxon municipal Notgeld work during this period. Designer Rieß is credited in the plate — uncommon for small-denomination Kleingeldscheine, where artistic attribution was rarely considered worth recording.