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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Lauenstein (Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG, Saalfeld, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Notgeld der Gemeinde ·LAUENSTEIN· Gültig bis 4 Wochen nach Aufruf! Der Gemeinderat 50 50 No |
| Reverse description | Tan speckled ground enclosed by a wide black border, with a rustic frame of crossed logs and floral corner ornaments forming an inner border. To the left stands a full-length figure of a medieval knight in armour bearing a halberd, flanked by the large red numeral '50'; to the right a peasant figure in working dress holds a scythe beside the large red denomination indicator 'PF.' The central field carries a six-line patriotic verse in bold black block capitals with alternate red horizontal rules, printed in letterpress. The printer's imprint 'Wiedermannsche-Druckerei A.-G. Saalfeld (Thür)' appears in small type below the outer border. |
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Lauenstein is a small hilltop settlement in Lower Franconia, administratively a district of Ludwigsstadt, and an unlikely issuer of emergency currency. This note belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld produced in 1921, when chronic coin shortages — partly driven by metal hoarding and partly by the accelerating collapse of purchasing power — pushed even minor local authorities to contract commercial printers for small-denomination scrip.
Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG in Saalfeld was a regional commercial press that handled multiple Thuringian and Bavarian Notgeld commissions during this period, not a specialist banknote printer. The reference number suggests this is the second variant in the Lauenstein series.