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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Wünschendorf (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green Notgeld note with a decorative Art Nouveau foliate border panel on the left enclosing an oval vignette of the municipal seal of Wünschendorf, showing a pair of storks with chicks in a marsh setting. To the right, the denomination '50 Pfennig' is rendered in bold blackletter script at the top, beneath which an elliptical cartouche carries the text 'Notgeld Wünschendorf' in white lettering on a dark ground. Below follows the validity text and the issue date 'Wünschendorf a. d. Elster, den 20. September 1921,' with the facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand and the printer's imprint at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | FLÖSSER BEIM NACHTRIEB. Flössrechen. WER FLÖSSHOLZ ENTWENDET WIRD MIT STAUPESCHLAGEN BESTRAFT ODER MIT DEM STRANG VOM LEBEN ZUM TOD GEBRACHT. Churf.Constit 1584. FLÖSSHOLZ-DIEB. |
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Wünschendorf is a small Thuringian village, and its appearance as a Notgeld issuer in 1921 reflects just how far down the administrative chain the postwar currency shortage reached. The Hofdruckerei Gerth & Oppenrieder in nearby Gera handled a considerable volume of municipal emergency money for smaller Thuringian communities during this period — a practical arrangement that gave these hyper-local issues a degree of printing competence well beyond what their issuers could have managed independently.
The DeNG reference covers four varieties (1457.1–3/4), suggesting serial or design differentiation within a single denomination series — unusual for a municipality this size.