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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schmiedefeld (Municipality of Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a wide panoramic vignette of the town of Schmiedefeld set in a rolling Thuringian landscape, captioned 'Schmiedefeld' within the scene. The vignette is framed by an arched decorative rope border at the top, with a male agricultural labourer at left and a woman carrying a sheaf at right rendered in a woodcut-like style. Below the central scene, a panel with a stippled underprint carries a two-line rhyming motto in gothic script, and the denomination numeral '50' and abbreviation 'Pfg' appear in bold gothic type within ruled boxes at the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg Schmiedefeld Arbeit und Fleiß als höchst' Gebot Hilft uns wieder aus der Not. |
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Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig is a small Thuringian village on the Rennsteig ridge, the historic watershed and cultural boundary between Franconia and Thuringia that locals treated almost as a national border. The Gemeinde's decision to issue notgeld in 1921 was driven by the chronic small-change shortage that plagued German municipalities in the inflationary years following the First World War — the Reichsbank simply could not keep low-denomination coinage in circulation fast enough to meet demand.
Graphische Werkstätten GmbH in Ilmenau printed extensively for small Thuringian communes during this period, and the short geographic distance between printer and issuer was typical of how notgeld procurement actually worked at the local level.