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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Eilenburg (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream and red notgeld with a central oval vignette of composer Franz Abt in three-quarter portrait, encircled by a laurel wreath tied with ribbons. The title legend in red Gothic script runs across the top; validity date appears at upper left; denomination numerals in red at lower left and right corners. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the birthplace of Franz Abt rendered in black line art with a red roof, set within a circular golden underprint. City arms vignettes flank the scene at lower left and right; denomination numerals appear at upper corners; inscriptions in black letterpress above and below the central vignette. |
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Eilenburg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — printed not because of wartime disruption but because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday commercial demand during the postwar inflation spiral. Towns across Saxony took matters into their own hands, and Eilenburg was no exception.
A. Dickert designed the series locally, which was common practice for smaller Saxon municipalities that lacked the budgets to commission established printing houses. The result is municipal rather than professional — which is precisely what makes provincial Notgeld issues attractive to specialists studying regional graphic traditions of the period.