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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schmiedefeld (Municipality of Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Schmiedefelds Notgeld der Gemeinde Schmiedefeld Glasindustrie- u. Luftkurort 720 m. ü. d. M. Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Schmiedefeld i/ Thüringen Gemeindevorstand Zwanzig Pfennig ENTW. u. DRUCK GRAPH. WERKSTÄTTEN G.m.b.H. ILMENAU |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on a pale green underprint and carries a panoramic landscape vignette occupying the upper two-thirds of the note, illustrating a rack railway (Zahnradbahn) traversing a wooded Thuringian Forest valley; a stag stands to the left among tall conifers, while a traditional folk musician plays a stringed instrument to the right, with a caption 'Zahnradbahn a. Rennsteig' inscribed beneath the scene. The denomination numeral '20' appears in the upper-left corner box and the abbreviation 'Pfg' in the upper-right corner box. A three-line verse in blackletter script occupies the lower panel within a decorative border. |
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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.