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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtrat Döbeln (City Council of Döbeln) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld with black and yellow multicolour letterpress print. Two armoured medieval knights flank a central composition of two oval vignettes — the Neues Rathaus (left) and the Nicolai-Kirche (right) — framing the Döbeln municipal coat of arms, a red-towered shield, at centre. Denomination '50 Pfg' appears in upper corners; validity clause, issuance date 'Döbeln, Sept. 1921', and a manuscript signature of the Stadtrat below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wachsamkeit Angriff auf Kriebstein Kampf 6 |
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Döbeln's 1921 Notgeld issue was one of thousands produced by German municipal and district authorities during the hyperinflationary spiral that followed the First World War, when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage effectively vanished from everyday commerce — hoarded, melted, or simply outpaced by inflation. The Stadtrat's decision to contract Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, roughly 60 kilometers southwest, rather than use a local printer, suggests either capacity constraints or an existing commercial relationship.
Saxony was unusually dense with small private and municipal printers turning out Notgeld during this period, many of them jobbing shops with no prior securities experience. DeNG 1#277.1 is the first catalogued variant of this denomination for Döbeln.