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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Markneukirchen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in the same salmon-orange and black colour scheme, with a matching guilloche border of repeating geometric motifs along all edges. The denomination numeral '50' is repeated in large white figures within orange panels at upper left and upper right. A central underprint cartouche of spiralling scrollwork frames a faint allegorical vignette, echoing the obverse design. A black serial number prefixed 'No' is printed at the left. Redemption text in Gothic blackletter script runs across the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] Dieser Schein wird eingelöst bei der städtischen Sparkasse und bei der Stadtkasse Markneukirchen. (Translation: This note will be redeemed at the municipal savings bank and at the city treasury of Markneukirchen.) |
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Markneukirchen is a small town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, historically the center of Germany's musical instrument manufacturing trade — violins, brass instruments, harmonicas — and this 50 Pfennig Notgeld note was issued in 1918 as the imperial economy buckled under wartime shortages of coinage. Municipal and local bodies across Germany issued their own emergency small-denomination paper during this period precisely because metal was being diverted to the war effort.
The watermarked paper is notable for a note of this size and denomination — most Notgeld of this type was printed on plain stock, making the security feature here an atypical production choice for a small Saxon municipality.