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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schierke (Municipality of Schierke, Prussian Province of Saxony) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-grey letterpress vignette of a Harz mountain landscape with coniferous forest and two silhouetted figures at right; centre medallion with a laurel wreath enclosing a black silhouette portrait of Goethe. Denomination "Fünfzig Pfg." in Gothic script below. Serial number in red at lower left; issuing authority signature and date at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Schierke i. Harz Neue Kirche |
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Schierke sits at the foot of the Brocken — the highest peak in northern Germany and a site so wrapped in folklore that Goethe set the Walpurgisnacht scene of Faust there. The municipality issued this Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI monetary disruption, when towns across the country printed their own emergency fractions rather than wait for Berlin to supply coins that simply weren't coming.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt produced a considerable volume of municipal Notgeld for communities throughout the Prussian Province of Saxony during this period. Schierke's issues were short-lived — the Rentenmark stabilization of 1923 rendered all such local paper redundant within two years of printing.