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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Lehesten (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Gold und Silber lieb ich sehr ♦ Könnt es gut gebrauchen. GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 Notgeld der Bergstadt u. Sommerfrische Lehesten im Thüringerwald im Juni 1921. Bürgermeisteramt: Obenaus |
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| Reverse lettering | Doch auch das Leben weiss den Pfad zu finden, Was Menschen trennt, das muss sie auch verbinden. Thüringerwald Verein dreiwappenstein am kießlich gebiet der bischöfe von bamberg. 1717 N 41000 |
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Lehesten is a small quarry town in the Thuringian Slate Mountains, best known historically as the source of roofing slate used across central Europe for centuries. Its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal small-change currency that flooded Germany during the coin shortage following the First World War — by mid-1921, thousands of German towns were printing their own pfennig denominations simply to keep retail trade functioning.
Merzdorf & Frosch in nearby Saalfeld handled a considerable volume of Thuringian notgeld printing during this period, servicing municipalities too small to commission the major specialist houses.