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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stützerbach (Municipality of Stützerbach, Prussian partition) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels printed in orange and teal on a dark ground. The left panel carries a circular vignette of a rooster atop a classical pedestal, flanked by laurel branches, with the curved inscription 'Ausgegeben Weihnachten 1921' around the upper arc. The central panel, set against a teal ground, contains the Gothic-script text of the note's legal tender clause and validity conditions, signed in manuscript by the Gemeindevorsteher (community administrator) Richter. The right panel displays the large numeral '50' within a circular guilloche frame, inscribed 'Fünfzig Pfennig' above and below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in terracotta-brown and cream on a teal-bordered ground. A central vignette in bold Art Nouveau line-work shows two glassblowers — known as Rohrzieher — facing each other and stretching a long glass tube between them, a reference to the local glassmaking industry of Stützerbach. The large denomination 'Pfg. 50 Pfg.' is rendered in decorative calligraphic script above the scene, with the border inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Stützerbach P.A.I.Th. über Fünfzig Pfennige' repeated along the top and bottom edges, and 'Fünfzig Pfennige' running vertically on both side borders. The printer's imprint 'Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig.' appears in small type at the lower centre. |
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Stützerbach is a small glassmaking village in the Thuringian Forest — better known, if at all, as the place where Goethe maintained a modest hunting lodge and visited repeatedly between 1776 and 1780. The municipality's decision to issue notgeld in 1921 had nothing to do with local prestige and everything to do with the catastrophic coin shortage gripping postwar Germany. Small denominations had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and thousands of towns filled the gap themselves.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig was a minor but prolific notgeld printer, responsible for a large number of municipal issues across Saxony and Thuringia during this period. The Richter signature identifies a local administrative signatory, not a bank official.