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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Scheibenberg (City of Scheibenberg, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black and yellow-ochre letterpress Notgeld note with a central vignette of a panoramic town view of Scheibenberg framed by a standing miner in uniform at right, against a landscape background. The denomination "50 Pfennig" is rendered in large ornate script across the upper centre, with decorative diamond panels bearing crossed-hammer motifs flanking both sides. A serial number block and validity text panel appear at the lower left, with a Bürgermeister signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 's liebe Rothaus hilft 3'r Nut 50 Pf. 50 Pf. |
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Scheibenberg is a small mining town in the Erzgebirge — the Ore Mountains — and this note is a product of the catastrophic postwar liquidity crisis that left German municipalities scrambling to print their own emergency money in 1921. The Reichsbank simply could not keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough as inflation accelerated, and thousands of towns like Scheibenberg filled the gap with locally printed Kleingeldersatz.
Flath & Reimert were a local printing firm, not a specialist banknote printer. That's worth knowing when assessing paper and ink quality on surviving examples.