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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtlengsfeld (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | P#GRM:1251.1A-6/6 |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette within an oval frame showing a shepherd with crook and a wolf, with a flock of sheep in a pastoral landscape. Ornamental scrollwork border in ochre and black surrounds the central scene. |
| Reverse lettering | Da rief der Betrogne: "Ich blinder Tor!" Nun bin ich ein Schäfer und arm – wie zuvor! |
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Stadtlengsfeld was a small market town in the Rhön region of Thuringia, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it turned to Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Stürtz press in Würzburg was one of the more active commercial printers supplying these municipal emergency issues across central Germany — their output for small Thuringian and Franconian towns during 1920–1921 was prolific enough that the house style is recognizable across dozens of different issuers.
The two signatories, Höslu and Kamps, were almost certainly local municipal officials rather than bank officers — Stadtlengsfeld had no independent banking institution of note. Their signatures lend the piece its legal validity under the issuing authority of the Stadtverwaltung.