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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Lehesten (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Gold und Silber lieb ich sehr ✦ Könnt es gut gebrauchen. GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 Notgeld der Bergstadt u. Sommerfrische Lehesten im Thüringerwald im Juni 1921. Bürgermeisteramt: |
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| Reverse lettering | Ein deutscher Bergpfad ist's! die Städte flieht er Und keucht zum Kamm des Waldgebirgs hinauf. vō gottf gnadē 1515 (geo)rg bischofe zo bamberg. |
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Lehesten was a small slate-quarrying town in the Thuringian highlands, and its municipal notgeld reflects the hyper-local character of the 1921 emergency coinage wave — when coin shortages forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own fractional paper. The Merzdorf & Frosch print shop in nearby Saalfeld handled a substantial volume of Thuringian notgeld commissions during this period, functioning essentially as a regional clearinghouse for small-town issue work.
The DeNG reference grouping (.1-3/10) indicates this is one of a set of at least three design variants within the same denomination, a common marketing strategy by 1921 as municipalities discovered collectors would buy full sets.