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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Teuchern (City of Teuchern) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned note printed in dark brown ink with a large Gothic blackletter denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' across the top and the numeral '50 Pfg.' at lower left. A central vignette presents the Teuchern city coat of arms within a classical arched portico, showing an armored knight bearing a lance and shield, inscribed 'VINCAT VERITAS ATQUE JUSTITIA' and 'SECRETUM CIVITATIS / TEUCHE... 1722 D. 17. JUL.' Flanking the arch are decorative vignettes of wheat sheaves at left and a waterwheel with oak foliage at right, with the issuing authority signature of 'Der Magistrat' and a serial number at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Tan ground with dark brown letterpress printing, the denomination '50 Pfennige' in bold Gothic script across the top flanked by numeral '50' at each upper corner. The central vignette, set within an oval frame with scrollwork underprint, presents a detailed view of the Uhrgläserwerke Deutscher Uhrmacher e.GmbH factory complex with smoking chimneys. Below the vignette, a ribbon banner carries the factory name, followed by a four-line verse in Gothic script. The issuing authority 'Stadt Teuchern.' appears in large blackletter at the foot, with the printer's imprint along the lower margin. |
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Teuchern is a small market town in the Saale district of Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1921 — the period when coin shortages became so acute that hundreds of German municipalities printed their own fractional notes to keep local commerce functional. Gerth & Oppenrieder in Gera handled substantial volumes of this municipal emergency paper across the region, supplying towns that lacked any direct relationship with a major printer.
The DeNG reference places it firmly within the documented Notgeld corpus, but Teuchern's issues are not among the elaborately decorated collector-targeted Serienscheine that flooded the market in the same period — these were working notes, issued to circulate.