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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Köstritz (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and yellow-green on white paper, framed by a double-rule border with asterisk ornaments at each corner. The issuing authority legend appears at the top in bold Gothic lettering, above three circular vignettes arranged horizontally at centre: the left disc contains a heron passant, the central and largest disc bears the denomination numeral '50' with 'PFENNIGE' below and a small asterisk at its base, and the right disc carries a rampant lion — all rendered in a bold woodcut style with yellow-green highlights. A two-line validity clause is printed in spaced letterpress type at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | SCHWARZES BIER AUS KOSTRITZ DU! SÜSSE LABE GUTE RUH 50 50 |
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Köstritz notgeld from the early 1920s inflation period, issued by the municipality when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. These small paper emergency issues were produced by the thousands across Thuringia, often by local printers with no particular security printing capability — authenticity rested almost entirely on the issuing authority's stamp or signature rather than any technical anti-counterfeiting measure.
Köstritz is better known today as the birthplace of Heinrich Schütz, the baroque composer, a fact local issuers occasionally leveraged in notgeld design during this period.