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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Zeulenroda (City of Zeulenroda) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with an ornate decorative border of interlaced geometric and floral guilloche patterns flanking a central arched vignette of a large civic building, likely the Zeulenroda town hall, printed on a green underprint ground. Denomination numerals '50' appear in bold horizontally-lined type at left and right, with the issue date 'Zeulenroda, den 16. Dezбр. 1918' below the left numeral and the municipal authority designation 'Der Stadtgemeinde Vorstand' with a manuscript signature below the right numeral. A large octagonal '50' counter in green on black is centred at the lower margin, with 'Pfennig' repeated in Gothic script across the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Green and black letterpress reverse centred on the municipal coat of arms of Zeulenroda: a heraldic shield in dark ground bearing a crowned lion's head with red crown and red-tipped forepaws, surmounted by a crenellated red castle wall with three merlons. The shield is flanked by the same geometric guilloche border strips as the obverse, with green corner panels each carrying the numeral '50' in black, and the inscription 'PFENNIG' repeated vertically at left and right within the border strips. |
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Zeulenroda is a small textile town in Thuringia, and this 1918 notgeld issue is exactly what you'd expect from a minor municipal authority scrambling to fill the coin shortage created by wartime metal requisitioning. By late 1918, virtually every German city, town, and large employer had printed their own emergency fractional notes — the Reichsbank had lost all practical control over small-denomination circulation.
Stadt issues like this one were typically printed locally in short runs, which means survival rates vary sharply between municipalities. Zeulenroda's issues are not among the heavily documented series.