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50 Pfennigs Notgeldausstellung
| Issuer | City of Halle an der Saale (notgeld) (Prussian province of Saxony) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 92 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress vignette spanning the full note width, divided into three pictorial zones: at left, a pen-and-ink style view of the Halle market square with the Marktkirche tower; at centre, a circular wreath of red berries enclosing a mounted rider on a donkey; at right, a landscape view of Burg Giebichenstein fortress. Below the central vignette, the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' appears in large red Gothic script on a scroll cartouche, flanked by bilingual issue text in black Gothic lettering and a manuscript facsimile signature of the exhibition directorate. |
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| Reverse description | Full-face multicolour illustration in an expressive woodcut-like style, occupying the entire note surface, depicting two figures at a medieval construction site: a richly dressed nobleman in a red-and-white patterned cloak at left, and a workman in blue garb holding a document or plan at centre-right, with scaffolding ladders and a hilly landscape visible in the background. The artist's signature 'J. von Salarin' appears within the image field, and a caption in black Gothic script runs along the lower margin. |
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The 1921 Halle notgeld series was issued specifically to coincide with a local Notgeld exhibition — one of the stranger self-referential moments in German emergency currency, where the notes themselves were both the subject and the souvenir of the event. By 1921, many German municipalities were producing notgeld less out of genuine coin shortage and more as a deliberate revenue stream, selling to the rapidly expanding collector market. Halle played this openly.
J. von Salarin is not a widely documented figure in notgeld design, which itself suggests a local commission rather than one of the established printing houses running standardized series across multiple issuers.