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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtbank Striegau (City of Striegau, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 83 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a letterpress view of the Striegau Rathaus (Town Hall) with a horse-drawn cart in the foreground, captioned "Rathaus" beneath the image. Flanking the central vignette on the left and right are tall rectangular panels each enclosing a stylised beehive motif, with the numeral "50" above each panel. The lower portion carries the issuing text, a manuscript signature of the Vorstand der Stadtbank, and a serial number, with "Fünfzig Pfennige" printed in Gothic script at the lower left and right corners; a geometric border with a diamond-and-zigzag pattern frames the entire face. |
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| Reverse description | A wide panoramic vignette across the upper half of the note presents a landscape view of Striegau in Silesia, with the Zobten mountain range visible in the background, signed "BRUNO HANDKE" within the image. Below the townscape, the city name "Striegau i. Schles." appears as a caption, beneath which the municipal coat of arms — bearing two armoured figures — is set centrally between the large denomination numerals "50" at left and right, rendered in bold letterpress within decorative scroll panels. A two-part redemption text in German Gothic script runs across the top margin, and a local proverb in Gothic script occupies the bottom margin. |
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Striegau's 1920 Notgeld issues were part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency money produced across Germany and Austria during the currency chaos following the First World War. The Reichsbank had effectively lost control of small-denomination coinage circulation, forcing towns, businesses, and even individual firms to print their own fractional notes to keep daily commerce moving. Stadtbank Striegau contracted Bruno Handke — a local printer rather than one of the major specialist houses — to produce the series, which shows in the modest production values typical of provincial Notgeld from Silesian municipalities.