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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Quedlinburg (City of Quedlinburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a black silhouette of the Quedlinburg castle hill with church spires against radiating sunburst rays; a crowned monogram medallion at top center. Left and right panels carry the denomination and validity dates flanked by two heraldic shields — the Prussian eagle and the Quedlinburg city arms — with the year 922 and 1922 at lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Central arched vignette renders a detailed letterpress scene of Abbess Mathilde of Quedlinburg enthroned and receiving homage, after a composition by Otto Markus, with two flanking side panels in teal-green bearing silhouetted figures against a bubble guilloche underprint and the denomination "50 PF" in white letterforms. |
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Quedlinburg's 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the final wave of German municipal emergency money — by this point the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate small denomination coinage had pushed hundreds of towns into commissioning their own scrip from local printers. H. Meyerding was a Quedlinburg-based firm printing for its own municipality, which was common practice; proximity kept costs low and turnaround fast when inflation was accelerating weekly.
Quedlinburg itself carries considerable historical weight as the burial site of Henry the Fowler and a center of Ottonian religious authority, though by 1922 the city issuing this note was an industrial market town with no particular monetary distinction.