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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Igelshieb a/Rennsteig (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and dark brown Notgeld note with a decorative border. The upper portion carries a vignette of two female figures in silhouette — an adult carrying a pail and a child holding a bouquet — walking through a Thuringian forest landscape with a village visible in the distance. The denomination panel at foot reads FÜNFZIG PFENNIG flanking a scalloped central medallion with the numeral 50, above the place name IGELSHIEB a/RENNSTEIG, the issue date 1. APRIL 1921, and the facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE 50 FÜNFZIG PFENNIG IGELSHIEB a/RENNSTEIG 1. APRIL 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND |
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Igelshieb is a village on the Rennsteig, the long ridge that historically divided Franconian from Thuringian dialect, law, and administration — a border that mattered intensely to locals long before any modern state drew lines through it. The Rennsteig identity was real enough that some communities along it issued Notgeld that leaned into the regional folklore explicitly, and this note is part of that pattern.
Aug. Heinecke of Rudolstadt was a workhorse printer of Thuringian Notgeld during the 1921 wave, producing small-run municipal issues across the region when the Reich's coin shortage forced even tiny settlements to print their own fractional currency.