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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Kelbra (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green and purple letterpress notgeld note with a central dark purple panel bearing the denomination in large blackletter script. Flanking vignettes on left and right show stylised serpentine dragon figures in Art Nouveau outline. At lower centre, the town arms with a calf passant in a shield cartouche; date and issuer signature appear in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg. STADT KELBRA |
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Kelbra is a small town in the southern Harz region, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its Magistrat issued emergency Kleingeld — small-denomination Notgeld — to address the chronic coin shortage that had persisted since the war years. The Reichsbank's inability to keep low-value coinage in circulation drove even minor townships to commission their own scrip, and printers like Faber of Magdeburg built a substantial business supplying them.
The single signature, Liebing, almost certainly represents the sitting Bürgermeister or a designated municipal treasurer — Kelbra's administrative records from this period are sparse enough that the precise title is difficult to confirm.