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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Lauchstädt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0773.1-4/4 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Lauchstedt Lauchstedt zur Zeit der Klassiker Lauchstedt 1921 Der Magistrat DRUCK: J. ADOLF SCHWARZ · LINDENBERG i/ALLGÄU |
| Reverse description | Tan and brown note with two oval portrait vignettes at centre, each set within a laurel wreath, showing bust-length portraits of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at left and Friedrich Schiller at right, with their names inscribed on ribbon scrolls beneath each portrait. Wheat-ear ornaments flank the composition on both sides, and the denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner. A bold heading runs across the top and a commemorative inscription is printed along the bottom margin. |
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Lauchstädt — formally Bad Lauchstädt — issued this note during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of the early Weimar period, when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation due to wartime hoarding and postwar metal shortages. Municipal authorities across Germany were legally permitted to fill the gap with locally authorized Notgeld, and thousands did. What distinguishes the Lauchstädt issue is the town's identity: its Goethe-Theater, built in 1802 under direct influence of the Weimar court, made it a natural subject for culturally themed emergency currency during a period when many municipalities leaned hard into local pride.
J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu printed for numerous small issuers during this period. The reference suffix 1-4/4 suggests this is the fourth note in a set of four denominations or design variants within the series.