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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipalities of Triebes, Hohenleuben, and Langenwetzendorf (Federal state of Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two vertical panels on a teal and orange ground. The left panel carries a large orange numeral '50' over a dark guilloche underprint, flanked by three circular municipal seals: those of Hohenleuben (with a town view), Langenwetzendorf (with a deer motif), and a third commune, each inscribed with the respective Gemeindevorstand legend. The right panel bears the heading 'Pflege Reichenfels.' at top, followed by the issuing text 'Gutschein der Gemeinden Triebes, Hohenleuben, Langenwetzendorf,' the denomination in bold Gothic script 'Fünfzig Pfennig,' the date 'Triebes, den 7. März 1921,' and three manuscript facsimile signatures of the respective municipal boards. |
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| Obverse lettering | Pflege Reichenfels. Gutschein der Gemeinden Triebes, Hohenleuben, Langenwetzendorf Fünfzig Pfennig Triebes, den 7. März 1921 Der Stadtgemeindevorstand Hohenleuben Der Gemeindevorstand Langenwetzendorf Der Gemeindevorstand |
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This is a joint issue — three small Thuringian municipalities pooling resources to produce emergency currency during the postwar Kleingeldenot, the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Triebes, Hohenleuben, and Langenwetzendorf are all clustered within the former Reuss principality, which had only been dissolved and absorbed into Thuringia in 1920, barely a year before this note appeared. The political ground was still freshly rearranged.
Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz was the obvious local choice — a regional printer serving exactly this kind of hyperlocal notgeld demand throughout the Vogtland and Reuss districts.