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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 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries two panoramic vignettes in a woodcut-like style: at left, the Gothic spires and towers of Halle's Marktkirche, and at right, the rocky cliff-top silhouette of Burg Giebichenstein. At centre, within a circular wreath of red berries and foliage on a black ground, a mounted cavalier raises his sword. The lower register contains the denomination on a scroll cartouche in bold red lettering, flanked by two blocks of black text and a handwritten signature, all printed in green, red, and black on cream paper. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gustav Adolf vor der Schlacht bei Lützen |
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This note was issued not as emergency currency in the conventional sense but specifically to accompany a Notgeld exhibition held in Halle in 1921 — a collectors' event at a moment when German municipal scrip had already become a deliberate philatelic commodity. By that point, many cities were printing Notgeld primarily for sale to collectors rather than for any genuine monetary need, and Halle leaned into that openly with exhibition-specific issues.
The designer, J. Walařínek, appears in no other documented Notgeld series, which suggests a commission specific to this event rather than a standing relationship with the city's printing office.