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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rudolstadt (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50Pfg 50Pfg SCHILLERS WOHNUNG Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. Jan 1922 Der Stadtrat (signature) GUTSCHEIN DER STADT RUDOLSTADT Lorsch & Nachbar, Rudolstadt (Translation: 50Pfg 50Pfg SCHILLER'S APARTMENT This certificate loses its validity on Jan 1, 1922 The City Council (signature) VOUCHER OF THE CITY OF RUDOLSTADT Lorsch & Nachbar, Rudolstadt) |
| Reverse description | Grey marginal panels at left and right each carry a bell motif in the upper corners and yellow wheat sprigs flanking denomination numerals in the lower corners. The central field presents a green circular vignette of a gathered congregation, enclosed by a quotation from Schiller's Das Lied von der Glocke (1799), printed in a circular arrangement. A serial number appears at the lower margin. |
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Rudolstadt's 50 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 was printed locally by Lorsch & Nachbar, a firm operating in the same small Thuringian town that issued the note — an unusual degree of self-sufficiency for municipal emergency currency of this period, when most German cities outsourced to major Leipzig or Berlin print houses. The result is a distinctly regional character in both production quality and design sensibility.
By 1921 the notgeld wave was already shifting from genuine necessity toward collector-driven "Serienscheine" — notes printed in sets specifically to be sold to dealers rather than spent. Whether this issue falls into that category or served real circulation in Rudolstadt's local economy is the more interesting question for the specialist.