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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Treffurt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 February 1922 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels within a bold black border. The left panel carries the denomination numeral '50' in large red Gothic script on a green vertically-lined underprint, with validity and redemption text below. The central panel bears a woodcut-style vignette of a walking sower figure beside a stylized cross and wheat stalk, with the word 'Notgeld' printed in red below. The right panel repeats 'Pfg' in red Gothic lettering on a matching green underprint, with the issuing authority 'Magistrat der Stadt Treffurt a.d. Werra' and date 'den 1.6.1921' alongside a facsimile signature. Above and below the tripartite frame, a two-line Gothic verse inscription runs the full width of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Geburts- Haus Eine Erinnerung an Dr. Ch. Muff 1841-1911 |
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Treffurt is a small town on the Werra river in Thuringia, and its 1921 notgeld issue is a product of the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar economic dislocation — Reichsmünzamt coin production simply couldn't keep pace with demand at the municipal level, forcing hundreds of German towns to commission their own emergency pfennig notes. Chr. Gerlach in Mühlhausen was a regional printer that handled a number of such local issues, giving this note more in common with its Thuringian neighbors than with the elaborate collector-targeted notgeld that Leipzig and Berlin firms were producing at the same moment.
M. E. Bührer's designer credit is relatively uncommon for a note at this denomination and from this tier of issuer.