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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Wörlitz (City of Wörlitz, Anhalt) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark red and green on white paper, framed by a red and green decorative border. A central vignette shows the neoclassical Wörlitz Palace (Schloss Wörlitz) set within a landscaped park, with a peacock in the foreground on the lawn. The denomination '50 PF' appears in large Gothic numerals on both left and right flanks, beneath a ribbon scroll bearing the inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt' in Gothic script, with the town name 'Wörlitz' in large ornate lettering below the vignette; two signature facsimiles appear at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark red and green on white paper with a matching decorative border incorporating stylized Art Nouveau floral motifs — tulip-like blossoms on green stalk ornaments — at the left and right margins. The central vignette presents a scenic view of a classical rotunda-style garden temple set among dense trees, likely the Pantheon in the Wörlitz Park, reflected in a foreground body of water. The denomination '50 PF' is printed in the upper corners, with the header inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Wörlitz' across the top, and a validity clause in Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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Wörlitz is a small town in Anhalt best known for the Wörlitzer Park, one of the earliest English-style landscape gardens on the European continent, laid out under Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz in the late eighteenth century. The municipal notgeld issued here in 1922 falls squarely in the inflationary wave that drove hundreds of German small towns to print emergency money — not out of patriotism but because Reichsbank small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation as the mark collapsed.
Anhalt notgeld from this period was often printed by local firms in small runs, and surviving examples frequently show uneven ink saturation as a result.