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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glauchau (City of Glauchau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 97 × 73 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central silhouette vignette in black on a cream ground, rendered in a folk-art Scherenschnitt style and signed 'Jacob Kindler' within the image field; it shows two figures seated at a table, each raising a drinking vessel, beneath a canopy of stylised foliage. The lateral borders repeat the red-brick tower motifs with green banding and circular '50' denomination roundels, consistent with the obverse frame design. A two-part rhyming legend in Gothic script runs across the upper and lower green border bands. |
| Reverse lettering | Naßten leern mit saurem Mund en Faß Milch bis auf den Grund |
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Glauchau's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the so-called Serienscheine period, when towns increasingly treated small-denomination paper as a minor revenue stream, printing attractive series to sell to collectors rather than purely to address a coin shortage. Whether this 50 Pfennig was genuinely pushed into local commerce or issued primarily for the philatelic trade is the real question with most Thuringian Notgeld from this period.
Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce was the city's own municipal press, which kept production costs negligible and redemption obligations entirely local.