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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Geisa (City of Geisa, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT GEISA FÜNFZIG PFENNIG DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ORTSÜBLICHER BEKANNTMACHUNG GEISA 1921 DER STADTGEMEINDEVORSTAND DRUCK: J.A.SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG i/ALLGÄU |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 |
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Geisa is a small town in the Rhön, and its 1921 Notgeld series was printed by J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu — a Bavarian printing house that produced municipal emergency currency for dozens of German towns during the inflationary crisis years. The DeNG reference 413.1-4/9 indicates this note belongs to a multi-variant series, suggesting Geisa issued several different designs within the same denomination, a common strategy among municipalities that treated Notgeld partly as a revenue source through collector sales.
Lindenberg im Allgäu, far from Thuringia geographically, handled print runs for municipalities well outside Bavaria throughout 1920–1922.