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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rudolstadt (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50Pfg 50Pfg SCHILLERS HÖHE Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. Jan 1922 Der Stadtrat (signature) GUTSCHEIN DER STADT RUDOLSTADT Lorach & Nachbar, Rudolstadt (Translation: 50Pfg 50Pfg SCHILLER'S HEIGHT This certificate loses its validity on 1 Jan 1922 The City Council (signature) VOUCHER OF THE CITY OF RUDOLSTADT Lorach & Nachbar, Rudolstadt) |
| Reverse description | Grey vertical panels on either side carry bell vignettes in the upper corners, with yellow wheat motifs and the denomination value in the lower corners. The central field bears a green circular underprint enclosing a vignette of young lovers, surrounded by a quotation from Schiller's Das Lied von der Glocke; a serial number is printed at the bottom. |
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Rudolstadt's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — printed not out of genuine coin shortage, as in 1914–1919, but largely in response to collector demand. By 1921, many German towns had recognized that philatelists and notaphilists across Europe were buying these small notes as souvenirs, and Lorsch & Nachbar, a local Rudolstadt printer, handled the production entirely in-house rather than contracting to the larger specialist houses in Leipzig or Berlin.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (1a through 3/10) indicate multiple print runs with minor typographic or color distinctions — the kind of detail that drives series completionists and inflates scarcity claims on individual pieces.