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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lobenstein (Reuss) |
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| Year | 1919-1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The left half of the reverse carries a finely executed black letterpress vignette, signed 'Orlishausen, 19.', of a medieval round tower rising above a wooded hillside townscape with buildings and rolling hills in the background under a dramatic clouded sky — a view of Lobenstein with its characteristic Bergfried. The right half, set against the same warm ochre guilloche underprint, presents a large block of Kurrent-style script text comprising a humorous regional verse. Denomination panels reading '50 Pfg.' with the legends 'Gutschein der Stadt Lobenstein' and 'Reuss' appear in ruled cartouches at the upper and lower right corners. The printer's imprint 'GEBR. PARCUS. MÜNCHEN.' is printed in small capitals along the bottom margin outside the border. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg. Gutschein der Stadt Lobenstein Reuss "O Herr, gib Reg'n und Sonnenschein für Greiz, Schleiz und Lobenstein; und wolln die andern auch was ha'n, so mögen sie Dir's selber sa'n" GEBR. PARCUS. MÜNCHEN. |
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Lobenstein was a small residential town in the principality of Reuss jüngerer Linie, one of the minor Thuringian states that had dissolved into the new Weimar Republic just months before this note appeared. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1919, the town issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — to address the acute coin shortage that followed the war and the economic disruption of demobilization. The Gebrüder Parcus firm in Munich handled an enormous volume of this Notgeld work, supplying dozens of municipalities across southern and central Germany with printed emergency issues.
The DeNG reference places this within a three-variant series for Lobenstein, distinguishing issues by minor typographic or color differences that are easily overlooked without direct comparison.