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50 Pfennigs Wartha
| Issuer | Magistrat Wartha |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress Notgeld note with a street-scene vignette of Wartha occupying the lower two-thirds; at left, a small Baroque chapel portal flanked by trees, and at right an orange-rendered two-storey municipal building inscribed 'Polizei Magistrat'. The large denomination numeral '50' within a circular guilloche and the denomination legend 'Pf.' appear in the upper centre, flanked by the validity clause at upper left and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' at upper right. The artist's monogram 'G.R.' appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | MUTTER MARIA Notgeld der Schlesischen Wallfahrtsstadt Wartha Grass, Barth & Comp. W. Friedrich, Breslau |
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Wartha — today Bardo in southwestern Poland — was a small town in Lower Silesia, and its 1921 notgeld issue is a product of the chronic small-change shortage that ground on in Germany well after the armistice. The Magistrat authorized these fractional notes because Reichsbank coin simply wasn't reaching provincial municipalities in usable quantities. Grass, Barth & Comp. W. Friedrich was a well-established Breslau printing house responsible for a significant share of Silesian notgeld production during this period.
The 1921 date places this in the later municipal phase, after many larger cities had already wound down their emergency issues.