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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Kösen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a decorative border in blue, green, and red. A curved ribbon banner in Fraktur script carries the legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Bad Kösen' across the upper centre, set against a yellow guilloche underprint panel; the denomination '50' appears in blue corner cartouches. The municipal coat of arms of Bad Kösen — a crenellated tower above a shield divided into blue and green fields — occupies the lower centre, flanked by red foliate scrollwork, with facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and the Stadtverordneten on either side dated 1 June 1921. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large panoramic vignette in fine letterpress engraving, presenting a bird's-eye view of Bad Kösen with its river valley, bridge, and townscape extending to a wooded hillside horizon beneath a clouded sky. The denomination title 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is set in a yellow guilloche panel at the top, with '50' repeated in the four blue corner cartouches, and the issuer legend 'Stadtgemeinde Bad Kösen' in Fraktur lettering within a matching panel at the foot. |
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Bad Kösen's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast flood of municipal emergency money produced across Germany as postwar inflation gutted the Reichsmark's purchasing power and small coinage disappeared entirely from circulation. Otto Henning AG in Greiz was a regional printer that handled Notgeld contracts for numerous Thuringian towns during this period — workmanlike production, not prestige printing.
Bad Kösen itself was known primarily as a spa town on the Saale river, with saline springs that had been commercially exploited since the medieval period. The local economy ran on health tourism, which made the disruption of small-denomination currency particularly acute for daily transactions with visitors.