50 Pfennig

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.