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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Rudolstadt (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and salmon-pink, with decorative scrollwork panels in each lateral margin and denomination numerals '50' in blue circles at upper left and right. The central vignette illustrates a scene from Friedrich Schiller's poem 'Das Lied von der Glocke': a large crowned bell rests upon the ground while a standing figure in 18th-century dress, holding a sheaf of papers, contemplates it, with a seated child visible in the background. A text panel at the lower margin carries an opening quatrain from Schiller's poem in Gothic Fraktur script. |
| Reverse lettering | Festgemauert in der Erden steht die Form / aus Lehm gebrannt. Heute muß die Glocke werden! Frisch Gesellen seid zur Hand! |
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Rudolstadt's 1921 Notgeld issue was a product of the coin shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar years — small denominations had effectively vanished from circulation as metal values fluctuated and the public hoarded anything tangible. Municipal councils across Thuringia stepped in as de facto monetary authorities, with Lorsch & Nachbar printing the Rudolstadt series locally, a matter of practical logistics rather than civic pride.
Thuringian Notgeld from this period was sometimes overproduced deliberately for the collector market, which had developed an appetite for the genre by 1921. Whether Rudolstadt's issue falls into that category or reflects genuine local need is worth establishing before assigning circulation assumptions.