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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Stadtilm (Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Otto Büttner, Stadtilm, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig 50 ℳ Stadtilm, d. 16. Oktober 1918. Der Stadtrat: No 14165 DER KAMPF FÜRS VATERLAND HEIMAT MUSS DIE WAFFEN SCHMIEDEN JEDEN STAND UND JEDE HAND BRAUCHT FÜR DEN KAMPF DEN SIEG DEN FRIEDEN OTTO BÜTTNER, STADTILM. STÜRTZ |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a horizontally divided composition with two large architectural vignettes at lower left and lower right, the left showing a market square with a prominent church, and the right a Gothic hall building with a large open square. At the top centre, the town arms — a gateway tower on a green underprint shield — are flanked by the denomination '50 ℳ' on each side and the inscriptions 'Stadt' and 'Stadtilm' in bold Gothic type. Below the arms, a two-paragraph Gothic-script text states the redemption conditions and forgery penalties, with a decorative ornamental border running along all four edges. |
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Stadtilm was a small town in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it turned to local printers to fill the void left by the collapse of small-change coinage. Metal had long been pulled for the war effort, and the Reichsbank's substitute issues couldn't reach everywhere. Otto Büttner was a local printer, not a security press — which shows in the relatively simple execution typical of municipal Kleingeldersatz from this period.
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt itself ceased to exist as a sovereign entity within weeks of the armistice, absorbed into Thuringia in 1918.