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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Roda in Altenburg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 52 × 38 mm |
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| Reverse description | The left panel repeats the large '50 PFg.' denomination in white lettering on a dark blue guilloche ground. The right panel carries a woodcut-style vignette of a goat's head emerging from a barn door rendered in vertical plank detail, with the city arms circular seal in the upper right corner. The inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Roda S.-A.' appears in Gothic blackletter script above the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 PFg. Notgeld der Stadt Roda S.-A. |
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Roda — now Rodewisch — was a small Thuringian textile town with no particular monetary distinction, which makes its 1920 Notgeld issues typical of the thousands of municipal emergency scrip series produced across Germany during the postwar currency chaos. With the Reichsbank unable to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, cities and towns of every size printed their own stopgap fractional notes, flooding the market with locally redeemable paper that was technically valid only within the issuing municipality.
Collectors should note that "Roda in Altenburg" distinguishes this issuer from Roda bei Ilmenau and other Roda-named localities — a distinction that matters when attributing pieces without clear provenance.