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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Krölpa (Municipality of Krölpa) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a full-colour landscape vignette set within an arched frame, flanked by dark ornamental side panels with circular geometric motifs; the scene illustrates, from left to right, the rocky Pinsenberg outcrop, Schloß Brandenstein amid wooded hills, and Burg Ranis, each identified by a caption below. Red numerals "50" are set within yellow shield cartouches at the upper corners, while a yellow text panel along the lower edge carries the date "Krölpa i.Th. den 31. Juli 1921", the validity clause, the facsimile signature of the Ortsbehörde, and the printer's imprint. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Pinsenberg Schloß Brandenstein Burg Ranis Krölpa i.Th. den 31. Juli 1921 Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach ortsüblichem Aufruf zur Einlösung Die Ortsbehörde WIEDEMANNSCHE DRUCKEREI A.-G. SAALFELD i.THÜR. |
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Krölpa is a small industrial village in Thuringia, best known in this period for its slate quarrying. This note is Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when coin metal was being hoarded and official currency production could not keep pace with demand. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own, and the Wiedemannsche Druckerei in nearby Saalfeld serviced a significant cluster of Thuringian communities through this period.
The printer's proximity to Krölpa — under 15 kilometres — was typical of how these commissions worked: local governments went to the nearest capable press.