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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange and brown Notgeld note with the municipal arms of Pößneck at centre — a blue heraldic shield bearing a black lion, surmounted by a mural crown — set within elaborate Art Nouveau interlaced scrollwork on a red ground. The issuer name STADT PÖSSNECK is inscribed in large bold Gothic lettering below the vignette, with NOTGELD and the denomination 50 Pf. centred beneath. Cartouches at lower left and lower right carry validity and authority texts respectively, with the denomination numeral 50 repeated in all four corners within gilt-outlined panels. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT PÖSSNECK NOTGELD 50 Pf. Dieser Gutschein verliest seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung Magistrat und Gemeinderat: Druck von Johannes Arndt, Jena. |
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Pößneck's 1921 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in the chaos following the war. Towns across Thuringia printed their own stopgap issues through local commercial printers rather than wait for central supply. Johannes Arndt in Jena handled a number of these regional commissions.
The DeNG reference suffix distinguishes between sub-varieties within the series, suggesting at least minor typographic or color differences across the run — common in notgeld produced at small print shops working with limited ink stocks.