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50 Pfennig with expiry date
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mylau (City of Mylau) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green on cream paper, with large denomination numerals '50' in Gothic style at the upper left and right corners. The central vignette presents a detailed black-line view of a castle or fortified manor amid trees and foliage, rendered in a fine engraved style. A serial number is printed below the vignette, and along the lower margin runs the validity inscription confirming use restricted to the Mylau municipal district until 31 December 1919. |
| Reverse lettering | N° 028708 Gültig nur im Stadtbezirke Mylau i.V. und nur bis 31. Dezember 1919 |
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Mylau is a small textile town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the 1914–1923 Notgeld period, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when imperial and then Weimar central authorities could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The expiry date printed on the note was a deliberate mechanism — it forced redemption within a fixed window, preventing local scrip from accumulating as a parallel currency and limiting the issuer's liability.
Notgeld with explicit expiry clauses tends to survive in higher quantities than circulated examples, because holders often missed redemption deadlines and simply kept the notes.