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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinden Tambach-Dietharz |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-grey notgeld voucher with a fine geometric guilloche underprint and a decorative scalloped border running the full perimeter. The issuer's name 'Gemeinden Tambach-Dietharz' is set in bold blackletter across the top, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in the four corners. The central field carries the Fraktur inscription 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in large display script above the date 'April 1917', the place name 'Tambach Dietharz', the authority line 'Die Gemeindevorständer:', a serial number, and two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Pale blue-grey reverse with a central oval cartouche framed by ornate acanthus-scroll vignettes at the top and bottom, enclosing a block of blackletter redemption text. The denomination '50 Pf.' is printed in bold on both lateral margins within the cartouche frame. A plain outer border contains the validity legend split across the lower margin. |
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Tambach-Dietharz is a small spa town in the Thuringian Forest, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, it resorted to locally printed Notgeld as the wartime economy drained metal coinage from circulation. These township issues were typically authorized under emergency provisions and printed by whatever local printer was available — quality and consistency varied considerably, and many were never intended to circulate beyond the issuing parish's immediate commercial sphere.
Municipal issues from this period were frequently redeemed and destroyed within months, making intact survivors more common in collector sets than in genuinely circulated condition.