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| Emittent | Stadt Lehesten (City of Lehesten, Thuringia) |
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| Jahr | 1920 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Polychrome vignette at left centre shows the Bismarckturm (Bismarck Tower) on the Wetzstein hill, set among tall conifers in a Thuringian forest landscape, with a caption below reading 'Bismarckturm auf dem Wetzstein, Fernsicht bei 815 m Höhe'. To the right, the denomination '50 PFENNIG' and the issuing authority legend appear in bold Gothic letterpress, beneath which the date '11. November 1920', the authority line 'DAS BÜRGERMEISTERAMT', and a manuscript facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister are printed; two civic coat-of-arms shields — one bearing a conifer tree and the other a hammer — are placed at lower right. The note number and series designation 'Ser. III' appear at the foot, and the entire composition is enclosed within a decorative chamfered border with dot-and-dash pattern. |
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| Rückseitenlegende | Es grünt die Tannen, Es wachsen die Bäume; Gott laßt in Zukunft Uns glücklicher sein! |
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Lehesten, a small quarry town in the Thuringian Slate Mountains, issued this Notgeld during the postwar emergency that left municipal and commercial issuers filling the coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitioning. The slate industry defined the town entirely — Lehesten's quarries had supplied roofing slate across Central Europe for centuries, and the community had little economic identity apart from them.
Small-town Thuringian Notgeld from 1920 was produced by a handful of regional printers, often in short runs with no redemption infrastructure beyond local goodwill. Many pieces were never redeemed at all, absorbed instead by the collector market that had already begun treating Notgeld as a collecting category before the inflation crisis even peaked.