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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hildburghausen (City of Hildburghausen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | VERFÄLLT 3 MONATE NACH ERKLÄRUNG DER UNGÜLTIGKEIT 50 Pfg. NOTGELD DER STADT HILDBURGHAUSEN. |
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| Reverse lettering | Elende Hünd! Mit so a Lump'n gald muss ma sich play! 1921. |
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Hildburghausen is a small Thuringian town that briefly served as the capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen until the duchy was absorbed into Saxe-Meiningen in 1826. By 1921, it was an unremarkable provincial center — which makes its appearance in the Notgeld record entirely typical of the period. Municipal and corporate issuers across Germany flooded circulation with small-denomination emergency notes during 1920–1922 to relieve the chronic coin shortage driven by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding.
The .2 suffix in the reference suggests at least a second variety exists — likely a paper stock or print color variant, as was common when local printers switched suppliers mid-run.