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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Stadtilm (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a Gothic crypt interior with pointed arches and slender stone columns rendered in a detailed lithographic style. Two oval guilloche cartouches bearing the denomination '50 Pfg.' flank the crypt on either side, with the town arms of Stadtilm — a blue shield with a gate tower — positioned at the bottom centre. The heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Stadtilm' arches across the top, while a scroll at the foot carries the validity and date inscriptions alongside a manuscript signature of the Stadtrat. |
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| Reverse description | A colour lithographic vignette occupies the centre of the note, illustrating a medieval stone defensive tower and adjoining town wall amid leafy trees, with a pathway leading through an arch at its base. Bold numerals '50' appear in the upper-left corner and 'PF.' in the upper-right, set against decorative guilloche side panels in a diamond lattice pattern on both lateral borders. The town name 'Stadtilm' is lettered in the lower left, with the caption 'Befestigungsturm der Stadtmauer' in the lower right, and the printer's imprint runs along the very bottom margin. |
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Stadtilm's 1921 notgeld issue was one of thousands of municipal emergency notes flooding Thuringia and the broader German economy during the postwar coin shortage. What distinguishes this specific piece from the mass of Kleingeldersatz issues is the printer: Wiedemannsche Druckerei A.G. in Saalfeld was a regional commercial press, not one of the large specialist security printers, and notgeld contracts were a significant revenue stream for exactly these kinds of mid-sized regional firms during 1920–1922.
Stadtilm itself — a small town on the Ilm river — was administratively part of the Free State of Thuringia, formed only in 1920 from the consolidated Thuringian states after the abdication of their respective princes.