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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Thale am Harz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1320.13h |
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| Reverse description | Two stacked monochrome lithographic cityscapes of local Thale landmarks printed in sepia tones within a single bordered vignette. The upper panel presents a view of Rittergut II with the remaining walls of the former Wendhusen monastery, rendered as a detailed architectural study; the lower panel shows a narrow village lane known as Der Winkel, with figures in period dress standing before low-roofed half-timbered houses. Captions in Gothic typeface identify each scene between and below the respective panels. |
| Reverse lettering | Rittergut II mit dem Rest des alten Klosters Wendhusen. Der Winkel |
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Thale am Harz was a small industrial town in the Harz region whose notgeld issues drew heavily on local mythology — the Bode Gorge and the Rosstrappe rock formation directly above the town fed decades of Romantic-era tourism, and municipalities like Thale understood that collectable scrip sold better than plain emergency currency. The Louis Koch press in Halberstadt handled a significant volume of Harz-area notgeld during the 1921 inflationary surge, turning these small issues around quickly for dozens of issuing bodies simultaneously.
The .13h suffix in the DeNG reference indicates this is one of several distinct varieties within the 1320 series — likely a color or paper variant rather than a separate design.