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50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Rudolstadt (City of Rudolstadt) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on a light green guilloche underprint of stylized fan and floral motifs, the note is centered on a circular vignette of a rampant heraldic lion. The denomination "Fünfzig Mark" is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script across the center, overlaying the vignette, with the word "Gutschein" above in a bold serif typeface. Denomination numerals "50" appear in each corner, the issue date and issuing authority are inscribed below the central vignette, and a red rectangular cancellation handstamp reading "Außer Kurs gesetzt" is applied to the upper left. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on a matching fan-motif guilloche underprint, the reverse is dominated by a large oval vignette enclosing a detailed letterpress view of Heidecksburg Castle in Rudolstadt, rendered with its characteristic multi-towered Baroque façade and a flag flying from the roofline. Denomination numerals "50" are placed in bold at each corner within the double-rule border. The field surrounding the oval vignette is filled with the same repetitive stylized shell and fan guilloche pattern as the obverse. |
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Rudolstadt's 1918 emergency issue is a product of the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany as the war economy consumed metals for munitions. Municipal authorities across the country were authorized to print their own Notgeld, and Rudolstadt — capital of the small principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt until the November 1918 revolution abolished the German monarchies — issued locally through the court printing house, the Hofbuchdruckerei, which had served the princely house before it served the republic.
The timing matters: notes issued in this final quarter of 1918 were often rendered obsolete within weeks by the political upheaval of November, leaving many unspent.