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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Großenhain |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Pfennig Der Stadtrat zu Großenhain. |
| Reverse description | Plain cream reverse with the same red guilloche border as the obverse, enclosing four corner panels each bearing the numeral '50' in bold Gothic type. The central field carries a multi-line validity text in Gothic blackletter script, with a ghost underprint of the denomination numerals visible through the paper. |
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Großenhain, a small textile town in Saxony, issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the final year of the First World War. Municipal councils across the country were forced to fill the vacuum left by hoarded coins, and Stadtrat zu Großenhain was among hundreds of local authorities producing their own fractional paper — a situation the Reichsbank tolerated out of necessity rather than policy.
The 66 × 46 mm format is notably small even by Kleingeldscheine standards, which frequently complicates authentication since trimming and moisture damage are hard to distinguish at these dimensions.