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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bad Schmiedeberg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Anno 1921 EISEN · Notgeld · MOOR Bad Schmiedeberg BEZ HALLE AUCH HIERHER KAM MANCHER AUF KRÜCKEN DER JETZO TANZT AUF DEM SEIL Dieser Gutschein wird von der Stadtkasse eingelöst Er behält seine Gültigkeit bis zum Aufruf DER MAGISTRAT DRUCK J. A. SCHWARZ LINDENBERG, ALLGÄU |
| Reverse description | Printed in black on a buff ground, the reverse carries a bold silhouette vignette in the Expressionist style, signed by the artist Lehmann-Wittenberg in the lower left corner, showing three figures gathered around an ornate tall vessel or urn on a table, with a fringed curtain canopy in the upper right corner. Below the vignette, a two-line Gothic script verse reads 'Herr Friedrich dann füllte den Krug mit Dukaten. — Hätten wir heut' solch' edele Münz, Wären wir besser berathen. —', with the denomination '50 Pf' integrated into the text layout. |
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Bad Schmiedeberg, a small spa town in the Prussian province of Saxony, issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s — a period when municipalities, businesses, and even individual farms printed their own Notgeld simply to keep commerce moving. The Schwarz printing house in Lindenberg was a prolific producer of such notes for dozens of provincial issuers, giving much of this material a consistent production quality that belies its emergency origins.
The designer credit to Lehmann-Wittenberg is the detail worth noting — a relatively uncommon attribution in the Schwarz-produced Notgeld corpus, where design credits were often omitted entirely.