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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Treffurt |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | A central oval vignette presents a woodcut-style illustration of the former Hessian Rathaus (town hall), a half-timbered building rendered in black ink, set within an ornate cartouche of yellow and green foliate scrollwork. Two blue heraldic shields, each bearing a white rearing horse, are placed at the lower left and lower right corners. The denomination numeral '50' appears in blue within the right-hand shield, and the arched inscription naming the building curves along the upper edge of the oval frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Ehem. hessisches Ratshaus bis 1736. 3 Herrn einst und 3 fach Steuer. Wie war das Leben damals teuer. 50 |
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Treffurt is a small town on the Werra River in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it turned to local emergency currency — Notgeld — during the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s when official small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Chr. Gerlach of Mühlhausen was a regional printer responsible for a number of these local issues, none of them ambitious in production terms.
Designer E. Beyrer is otherwise obscure in the Notgeld record — not unusual for this class of issue, where commissions went to local commercial artists rather than established engravers.