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50 Pfennigs Buchhandlung Alfred Adolph
| Issuer | Buchhandlung Alfred Adolph, Tarnowitz |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into horizontal bands of grey and red. The upper grey band carries the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script. The central red field contains a vignette of a row of books arranged in a curved arc, flanked by two short quotation texts in Gothic script. The lower grey band bears the redemption note and the denomination in bold Gothic lettering. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a striking two-colour silhouette composition: against a vivid red sky, the black skyline of Tarnowitz is rendered with multiple church towers and steeples of varying heights, creating a dramatic cityscape vignette. A grey underprint band at the base carries the denomination on both sides flanking the town name in Gothic script. The printer's imprint appears in small text at the lower right margin. |
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Tarnowitz — now Tarnowskie Góry in southern Poland — was a Silesian mining town, and like hundreds of German municipalities and local businesses during 1914–1923, its merchants issued their own emergency scrip when small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation. This note is a piece of commercial Notgeld, issued by a bookseller rather than a municipal authority — a private business filling a gap the Reichsbank and local governments couldn't always reach.
Ludwig Koch's Halberstadt print shop handled a large volume of such commissions across northern and central Germany. The separation between printer and issuer here is worth noting: Tarnowitz is Upper Silesia, roughly 400 kilometers from Halberstadt.