Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Neustadt an der Orla (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Neustadt (Orla). 50 Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Neustadt a. d. Orla, 14. Juni 1918. Der Stadtgemeindevorstand GEMEINDEVORSTAND NEUSTADT A.D. ORLA |
| Reverse description | Cream note printed in blue, dominated by a large central guilloche rosette incorporating concentric wave-line engine-turning and a sunburst underprint, with the denomination '50 Pfennig 50' set in bold within the rosette. Above the vignette, 'Gutschein' appears in Fraktur script followed by the serial number and the city attribution 'der Stadt Neustadt a. d. Orla.'; at the foot, a two-line validity notice in Fraktur advises that the note retains its validity until 31 December 1920. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Neustadt an der Orla issued this note under the notgeld system that proliferated across German municipalities from 1914 onward as coin shortages became acute. The April 1945 print date is the detail that stops you cold — that is within days of the town's occupation by American forces and weeks before Germany's formal capitulation. Whether this represented a genuine last-ditch attempt to keep local commerce functioning or simply an administrative act carried through by inertia is unclear, but almost nothing printed that late in the war saw meaningful circulation.