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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Langewiesen (City of Langewiesen, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 85 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and dark red letterpress Notgeld note with a decorative border of pine branches and cones along the top and bottom edges. The central vignette, set within an oval guilloche frame, presents a full-length figure of St. Kilian in robes, holding a staff and wearing a crown, captioned below. Flanking the central oval are two square guilloche panels each bearing the numeral '50' over the word 'Pfennig', with the issuer title in large Gothic lettering across the green top band and validity clause and facsimile signatures at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Langewiesen Ausgegeben im Jahre 1921. 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig St. Kilian Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkelt 3 Monate nach Aufruf in den hiesigen Zeitungen. DER MAGISTRAT: DER GEMEINDERAT: (Translation: Emergency money of the town of Langewiesen Issued in 1921. 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig St. Kilian This note loses its validity 3 months after being advertised in the local newspapers. The Magistrate: The Municipal Council:) |
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Langewiesen is a small industrial town in the Ilm district of Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic coin shortage that followed the First World War. These local issues were printed in enormous quantities during 1921, and many were produced speculatively for sale to collectors rather than for genuine circulation, which complicates any attempt to assess real usage today.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog or documentation date, not a printing date — the Notgeld series from Langewiesen belongs firmly to the 1921 wave of municipal issues, years before that date carries any meaning.