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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schwarzburg i. Schwarzatal (Municipality of Schwarzburg in the Schwarza Valley), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a rich palette of dark blue, orange, and green. At the centre, a detailed polychrome vignette presents a panoramic view of Schwarzburg Castle set upon a wooded hillside, framed within a large pair of stag antlers rendered in orange and dark blue — a heraldic allusion to the Thuringian Forest hunting tradition. Large denomination numerals '50' in orange and blue appear symmetrically at left and right, each accompanied by the legend 'ÜBER'. The town name 'Schwarzburg Thür.' is inscribed on a banner at the top centre, flanked by the word 'Gutschein' at each upper corner. A scroll ribbon at the lower margin carries a four-line verse in Fraktur script referencing the Thuringian Forest. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Schwarzburg Thür. Gutschein ÜBER 50 Wer einmal diesen Jungbrunn fand, Der schöpft aus keinem andern; Thüringer Wald, Thüringer Land, Nur hier mag ich noch wandern! |
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Schwarzburg was a tiny Thuringian village of perhaps a few hundred residents in 1921, better known as an imperial retreat — the Kaiser's Schwarzburg Palace loomed over the valley — than as an economic center. The note was issued during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar coin demonetization, when hundreds of municipalities scrambled to print their own fractional Notgeld to keep local trade moving. Printer August Heinecke operated out of nearby Rudolstadt, the regional capital, and supplied Notgeld to multiple Schwarza Valley communities during this period.
The 1921 series from Schwarzburg is among the more localized emissions — tiny issuing authority, minimal print run, short circulation window before Reichsbank reforms made municipal scrip redundant.