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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Quedlinburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a bold silhouette of Quedlinburg's collegiate church (Stiftskirche) rising dramatically against a radiating sunburst pattern, rendered in stark black and salmon-pink letterpress. Flanking side panels carry a salmon guilloche underprint over which the denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in bold Gothic blackletter at upper left and upper right. Text panels on the left and right provide the validity conditions and issuing authority, with a serial number in black at lower left and the magistrate's manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette is an artistic Scherenschnitt (paper-cut silhouette) by Walter Heege of Naumburg, portraying a seated female figure in profile with a small bird perched on her raised finger, set against a light ground with foliage rendered in the same cut-paper style. The flanking vertical side panels, printed in black, carry the denomination '50' in stylised numerals above a crown device in brown and bird motifs repeated in a decorative column, with the year '1919' at the foot of each panel. A single line of green Gothic lettering below the central vignette bears a verse inscription, and the printer's and designer's credits appear in small roman type at the foot of the note. |
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Quedlinburg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the flood of municipal emergency currency that German towns printed to address the chronic small-change shortage following the First World War. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a workhorse printer for Saxon and central German municipalities during this period, producing competent but unremarkable notgeld runs for dozens of issuers.
Walter Heege of Naumburg handled the design — a regional illustrator rather than a major print-house artist, which was typical of how smaller municipalities sourced their notgeld artwork cheaply and locally.