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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Probstzella (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned Notgeld note with a typographical layout in blackletter script on an ochre ground. The central text panel carries the issuer designation and denomination value in large gothic lettering, flanked at each corner by engraved scroll vignettes bearing the numeral '50' and the abbreviation 'Pfg'. A circular municipal seal at centre-lower left portrays a robed ecclesiastical figure (St. Judoci) with the legend 'Probst. Zella: S. Judoci: in', above a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand and the issuance year 1921. Decorative ribbon banners at top and bottom carry rhyming German inscriptions in italicised script. |
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| Reverse description | Ochre-toned reverse centred on an oval intaglio-style vignette of a panoramic landscape view of Probstei Zella, rendered with fine line engraving showing the monastery complex with twin church towers set against a rolling hillside and mountain backdrop. The oval is framed by decorative scroll banners at top and bottom carrying a two-line rhyming German verse. Denomination numerals '50' and the abbreviation 'Pfg' appear in engraved scroll cartouches at the upper corners, with the dates '1150–1526' and the inscription 'Probstei Zella' flanking the central vignette vertically. A small engraver's monogram 'G.M.' appears at lower left. |
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Probstzella is a small rail junction village on the Thuringian-Bavarian border, and its 1921 Notgeld issue reflects the practical logic of the period — local authorities filling the void left by a federal coin shortage rather than any particular financial ambition. Tens of thousands of German municipalities did the same, which makes this note unremarkable as a type but historically legible as a document of just how comprehensively the Weimar small-change system had collapsed.
The print date of 30 April 1945 recorded in this catalog entry is almost certainly erroneous — that date falls at the absolute end of the Third Reich, well over two decades after 1921 Notgeld had any legal or practical relevance.