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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rudolstadt (Thuringia), City of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50Pfg 50Pfg ERSTE BEGEGNUNG SCHILLERS u GOETHES Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. Jan 1922 Der Stadtrat (signature) GUTSCHEIN DER STADT RUDOLSTADT Lorach & Nachbar, Rudolstadt (Translation: 50Pfg 50Pfg FIRST MEETING OF SCHILLER and GOETHE This certificate loses its validity on Jan 1, 1922 The City Council (signature) VOUCHER OF THE CITY OF RUDOLSTADT Lorach & Nachbar, Rudolstadt) |
| Reverse description | Grey side panels left and right with bell motifs in the upper corners and yellow wheat ears with the denomination value in the lower corners; the central field carries a green circular vignette enclosing a figure amidst the ruins of war, surrounded by a quotation from Schiller's Das Lied von der Glocke (1799). The serial number is printed at the lower margin. |
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Rudolstadt's 50 Pfennig Notgeld was a local emergency issue, one of the thousands of small-denomination paper substitutes that flooded Germany between 1914 and the early 1920s when coin metal was diverted to war production and municipal authorities were left to fill the gap themselves. Lorsch & Nachbar, a local Rudolstadt printer, produced the note — the kind of arrangement that was common in Thuringia, where towns frequently contracted nearby commercial printers rather than specialist security firms.
The DeNG reference placing this within the 1146.1a series identifies it as a standard municipal issue, not one of the later collectible Serienscheine produced deliberately for the philatelic trade.