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| Emittent | Stadtrat Gotha (City Council of Gotha, Thuringia) |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
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| Nennwert | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse is printed in brown and green on cream paper. A panoramic vignette of the Gotha cityscape in orange-brown occupies the lower half, with church spires and rooftops rendered in fine line engraving. Overlaid in large bold green letterpress is the denomination '50 Pfennige', while the upper portion carries a multi-line text in German Kurrent script stating the note's acceptance and validity conditions, with a large decorative green initial 'D' at upper left. The serial number appears at left, and the place and date 'Gotha, 15. Juli 1921' along with the issuing authority 'Der Stadtrat' and a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister are printed in the lower right area. |
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| Unterschrift(en) | Dr. Scheffler (Oberbürgermeister) |
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| Anmerkungen |
Gotha's Notgeld issues of the early 1920s came out of the same inflationary pressure squeezing municipalities across Weimar Germany — the Reichsbank simply couldn't supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving. The city council stepped in as issuer, with the Hofbuchdruckerei — the court printing house that had served the Ernestine ducal household for generations — handling production locally. That institutional continuity shows in the print quality, which tends to be noticeably cleaner than emergency issues run off by less experienced provincial printers.
Dr. Scheffler served as Oberbürgermeister during a genuinely difficult administrative period, as Gotha was absorbed into the newly formed state of Thuringia in 1920.