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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtlengsfeld (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in grey-green and brown tones on a fine guilloche underprint ground. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner within ruled frames, with the value legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold blackletter script across the upper portion, followed by the issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Stadtlengsfeld' and the date 'Stadtlengsfeld, den 1. September 1921'. At centre, an oval municipality seal of Stadtlengsfeld bearing a standing figure is flanked by two manuscript signatures above the lines 'Der Gemeindevorstand' and 'Der Gemeinderat', with the serial number and printer's imprint 'H. Stürtz A.G. Würzburg' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Pfennig. Gutschein der Gemeinde Stadtlengsfeld. Ungültig einen Monat nach ortsüblicher Aufkündigung. Stadtlengsfeld, den 1. September 1921. Der Gemeindevorstand: Der Gemeinderat: SIEGEL DER STADTGEMEINDE STADTLENGSFELD |
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Stadtlengsfeld is a small town in the Rhön uplands of Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld not out of any genuine coin shortage — that emergency had largely passed by then — but because the collector market had made small-denomination paper a minor revenue source. Towns printed attractive series, sold them to dealers and hobbyists, and pocketed the seigniorage on notes that would never return for redemption.
H. Stürtz in Würzburg was one of the more prolific printers feeding this trade, handling Notgeld commissions from across Bavaria and Thuringia during the peak years of 1920–1922.