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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eisenach (Wartburgstadt) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and salmon on cream paper with an all-over foliate underprint of stylised oak-leaf motifs forming the background, the note carries the denomination numeral '50' in the upper left and upper right corners above the written value 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold Gothic blackletter script, beneath which a large salmon-toned '50' is overprinted in the field. The text body in Gothic script reads 'zahlen die städt. Kassen für diesen Gutschein', followed by the issue place and date 'Eisenach, den 20. November 1919', the authority line 'Der Vorstand der Wartburgstadt / Der Stadtkämmerer' with a manuscript signature, and a validity legend at lower left reading 'Gültig bis Aufruf. längstens Ende 1921'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. 50 Pf. Arbeite! Spare! |
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Eisenach leaned hard into the Wartburg association — the city had been marketing itself as "Wartburgstadt" since the late nineteenth century, and the Notgeld program was partly a civic branding exercise as much as an emergency monetary response to the coin shortages of 1919. With over twelve million pieces printed, this was a high-volume issue, almost certainly produced by one of the large German commercial printers handling the flood of municipal Notgeld orders that year.
The sheer print run made wide circulation inevitable, and heavily worn examples vastly outnumber clean ones in the market.