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50 Pfennig

Emittent Stadtrat Gotha (City Council of Gotha, Thuringia)
Jahr 1921
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Form Rectangular
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung The obverse is a Notgeld (emergency money) note printed in red and green on cream paper, with the date 'Gotha, 15. Juli 1921' and the issuing authority 'Der Stadtrat' accompanied by a manuscript facsimile signature. A panoramic green underprint vignette of the Gotha townscape with a church spire occupies the lower portion, above which the denomination '50 Pfennige' is printed in bold red Fraktur type. A decorative Gothic initial 'D' in red opens the validity text at the upper left, with the city arms vignette at the upper right.
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Rückseitenbeschreibung The reverse is printed in dark green and red on cream paper and carries an elaborate artistic composition: full-length figures of Gotthard the Abbot (left, in episcopal vestments with crozier and halo) and Ernst the Pious (right, in period robes holding a book) flank a central oval cartouche supported by putti amid baroque scrollwork, enclosing a green vignette of a Renaissance civic building. The denomination '50 Pfennige' appears in large red Fraktur script across the centre, interleaved with a four-line rhyming verse in Gothic blackletter. The designer's name 'F. Roby' is inscribed in the lower margin.
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Gotha's 1921 Notgeld issues came out of the same inflationary pressure squeezing every mid-sized German municipality that year — the Reichsbank couldn't keep small-denomination coinage in circulation fast enough, and local councils filled the gap with their own scrip. The Hofbuchdruckerei was the obvious choice here, being a well-regarded Gotha establishment with a long history of quality commercial and official printing work for the region.

F. Roby's design credit is relatively uncommon in Thuringian Notgeld — most issues of this scale went uncredited. Worth noting for specialist collectors of the series.

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