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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Kösen (City of Bad Kösen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a decorative border in red, blue, and green. A curved ribbon banner in Fraktur script bearing the issuer's name arches across the upper centre over a yellow guilloche underprint panel, below which the municipal coat of arms of Bad Kösen — a crenellated tower above a shield divided with a green and black banded lower half on a blue field — is printed centrally. The denomination numeral '50' appears in blue corner cartouches at upper left and right, flanked by green foliate ornamental side panels, with the validity clause and authorising signatures of Der Magistrat and Die Stadtverordneten inscribed in script to either side of the arms. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black, blue, and yellow with a dark central vignette panel bearing the denomination '50 Pfennig' in large blue numerals within a decorative lozenge frame. To the left, a vignette shows a student corps member in uniform with a tricolour sash, a medieval tower visible behind him; to the right, a second uniformed figure holds a standard, with a fortified tower in the background — both vignettes referencing the student corps (S.C.) tradition for which Bad Kösen is celebrated. A yellow banner across the bottom carries the local rhyme in Fraktur script. |
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Bad Kösen was a small spa town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the central supply of small-denomination coins collapsed under postwar inflation pressure. The Stadtgemeinde series was a practical stop-gap, not a commemorative vanity project, though the line between the two blurred quickly as local collectors began driving demand.
Otto Henning EG in Greiz was a regional cooperative printer responsible for a large volume of Thuringian Notgeld during this period. Their output is generally competent lithography, workmanlike rather than distinguished.