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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda (Reuss-Obergreiz) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Light green notgeld gutschein on plain paper stock, enclosed within a decorative chain-link border with rosette corner ornaments. The centre carries a faint underprint vignette of a townscape beneath a circular guilloche medallion bearing the text "STADT ZEULENRODA", over which the denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" is printed in bold blackletter type. Lower left bears a red circular town seal of Zeulenroda (Reuss ä.L.) with a lion passant over a crenellated wall, while the numeral "50" appears within a ruled circle at lower right, with the issuing authority, date, and validity clause printed below the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda. Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Zeulenroda, den 1. Juli 1917. Der Stadtgemeinde-Vorstand Gültig nur im Stadtbezirk Zeulenroda. STADT ZEULENRODA REUSS Ä.L. |
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Zeulenroda was a small textile town in the Reuss principality, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, it issued its own emergency Kleingeld when coin metal was diverted entirely to war production. These Stadtgemeinde notes — Notgeld in the strictest early sense — were functional stopgaps, not the decorative collector series that flooded the market after 1920. The distinction matters: 1917 municipal issues were actually spent in local shops, handled daily, and rarely put aside.
Reuss-Obergreiz had dissolved as a sovereign entity just a year earlier when the two Reuss lines merged administratively, so the geographic qualifier on the issuing authority reflects a political arrangement already fading from practical relevance.