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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Kalbsrieth (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by an elaborate Art Nouveau border of white blossoms and green foliage on all four sides, with the denomination '50' printed in red at upper right and lower left corners. A central rectangular vignette rendered in dark letterpress ink illustrates a allegorical scene of Flora, a draped female figure flanked by two cherubs, scattering flowers and fruits over the Goldene Aue valley landscape below. A vertical inscription in black-letter script runs along the left margin, with the legend 'Flora streut auf die Goldene Aue' across the top and 'Blüten und Früchte, Falter und Mücken' along the bottom of the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in terracotta red with a black-letter inscription across the upper register referencing Schiller's betrothal. A large central oval vignette, set within a gold-outlined border and flanked by engraved foliage corner ornaments, contains a bold black silhouette composition of two standing figures — a man and a woman — in 18th-century dress, gesturing toward one another beneath flowing decorative elements. A two-line verse inscription in black-letter script occupies the lower margin. |
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Kalbsrieth is a village in the Kyffhäuser district so small that its wartime and postwar Notgeld issues are among the more obscure municipal emissions from Thuringia. The 1921 date places this firmly in the second wave of German Notgeld — after the acute coin shortage emissions of 1917–1921 but coinciding with the inflationary pressure that would soon make small-denomination paper money worthless anyway. Many municipalities used Adolf Forker of Leipzig for short-run Notgeld work; the firm handled a significant volume of Kleingeldscheine for Thuringian issuers during this period.
Collector demand for Kalbsrieth pieces has always been niche, driven almost entirely by completist Notgeld specialists rather than regional historians.