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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eichrodt-Wutha (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DER HÖRSELBERG FÜNFZIG PFENNIG NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE EICHRODT-WUTHA GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZ. 1921. DER BÜRGERMEISTER DRUCK KARL KOCH, NORDHAUSEN. |
| Reverse description | Light cream ground with a central figurative vignette in the Expressionist manner: a reclining nude female figure (Venus) lies in the foreground, while a standing lute-playing troubadour in period costume stands behind her, both set within a swirling cave-like recess. The border is formed by a continuous running text inscription in teal capital letters on all four sides, alluding to the Tannhäuser legend. A red serial number appears at lower right, and the artist's imprint 'W. KRÜGER-WUTHA.' is printed along the bottom margin. |
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Wutha is a small Thuringian village, and in 1921 it was one of thousands of German municipalities scrambling to issue Notgeld as small-change shortages reached a critical point. The hyphenated issuer name — Gemeinde Eichrodt-Wutha — reflects a short-lived administrative pairing that was later dissolved, making the political geography of the issuer itself a minor historical footnote.
Karl Koch's Nordhausen press handled enormous volumes of municipal emergency paper during this period; the designer credit to W. Krüger of Wutha is unusual, suggesting local artistic involvement rather than a stock design pulled from a printer's catalogue.