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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schmiedefeld (Municipality of Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the obverse carries a central circular vignette within a wreath, containing a black grouse perched on a rocky outcrop, encircled by the legend 'Gemeinde Schmiedefelds'; flanking the vignette on both sides are detailed line-art illustrations of glass laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment — bottles, flasks, burettes, thermometers, and syringes — referencing the town's glass industry. Below the vignette, bold blackletter text reads 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Schmiedefeld' followed by a subtitle line, with the denomination 'Zwanzig Pfennig' repeated in two lower corner cartouches; a handwritten signature of the Gemeindevorstand appears in the central lower panel alongside the validity clause. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Pfg Zahnradbahn a. Rennsteig Zahnradbahn und Reisegeld, die steigen eins zu siebzehn. Ob's Geld auch einmal wieder fällt? Wir würden drum nicht trüb sehn. |
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Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig is a small Thuringian village on the ridge road that historically divided Franconia from Thuringia. This note belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — issued by German municipalities between roughly 1916 and 1922, when coin metal was requisitioned for war production and fractional currency effectively vanished from circulation. Graphische Werkstätten in nearby Ilmenau printed a significant volume of these local emergency issues for surrounding Thuringian communities, which is why the typography and layout often feel consistent across notes from entirely different issuing bodies.
Schmiedefeld's issues are not among the series that attracted heavy collector speculation during the 1920s Notgeld mania, which means survivors tend to be genuinely used examples rather than the printer's remainders sold directly to collectors that inflate survival rates for more prominent towns.