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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schmölln (Thuringia), City Council |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Göpel & Bartzsch, Schmölln, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue and green on light green paper with a full-field wavy-line underprint, the reverse carries a central woodcut-style vignette under an arched canopy line in which five town councillors are seated in deliberation at a long table, signed "C. Oetter" at lower right. Denomination figures "50 Pf." and "Pfs. 50" appear at upper left and upper right respectively, separated by the bold Fraktur title "Geldnot-Notgeld". A four-line humorous verse in Gothic script occupies a lower centre text panel, with the printer's imprint "Göpel & Bartzsch, Schmölln" at the lower left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. Geldnot-Notgeld Pfs. 50 Der Rat verlor drum nicht den Mut. Er tagte lang und tagte gut. Er dachte nach von früh bis spät Und saß bis daß der Hahn gekräht. Göpel & Bartzsch, Schmölln C. Oetter. |
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Schmölln, a small town in the Thuringian boot-making district, issued this Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed Germany's postwar economic disruption. Local authorities across Germany were printing their own emergency small-change notes by the thousands in 1921, and Schmölln was no exception — the city council authorized this series through the local firm Göpel & Bartzsch, keeping production and payment entirely within the town.
Designer C. Oetter is credited on the series, a relatively unusual attribution for municipal Notgeld of this type. The reference numbers 1189.2-3/4 indicate at least two distinct variants within this denomination.