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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stadtlengsfeld (City of Stadtlengsfeld) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in warm brown on an uncoloured paper ground, composed of a dense lathe-work guilloche pattern forming a rectangular frame around a central oval cartouche. The numeral "50" is set within the white oval, flanked on either side by symmetrical rosette ornaments, with horizontal banded registers of fine engine-turned lines filling the top and bottom margins. The four corners each bear the numeral "50" within plain white circles, providing additional denomination identification. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 50 |
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Stadtlengsfeld is a small Thuringian town — historically a spa settlement — that issued this Notgeld piece in 1917 when the German imperial government's wartime metal requisitions had stripped small communities of nearly all their subsidiary coinage. Municipalities were explicitly authorized to fill the gap themselves, which produced tens of thousands of distinct local issues across the Reich in 1916–1922, most printed in tiny quantities for purely local use.
The 1917 date places this in the earliest wave of paper Kleingeldscheine, before the more elaborately designed collector-targeted issues of 1920–21 muddied the waters between genuine emergency currency and philatelic product. A straightforward utility piece from a town that had no particular reason to dress it up.