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5 Pfennig - Rudolstadt Charlotte v. Schiller
| Issuer | Stadtrat Rudolstadt (City Council of Rudolstadt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The large numeral '5' dominates the central field, with the word 'PFENNIG' inscribed in a straight line below it and the date '1920' appearing beneath that along the lower rim. The issuing authority legend 'STADTRAT RUDOLSTADT' curves along the upper periphery in raised Latin letters, partially encircling the denomination. The overall design is bold and typographic, characteristic of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rudolstadt issued this iron notgeld piece in 1920 as part of the wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany following the metal shortages and economic dislocation of the First World War. The city's invocation of Charlotte von Schiller — née von Lengefeld, who married Friedrich Schiller in Rudolstadt's Stadtkirche in 1790 — reflects the town's deliberate effort to tie its emergency currency to local cultural prestige at a moment when the central state's monetary authority had badly eroded.