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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Lauchstädt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | J. Adolf Schwarz, Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Lauchstedt Lauchstedt zur Zeit der Klassiker 50 Pfg. Lauchstedt 1921 Der Magistrat DRUCK: J. ADOLF SCHWARZ · LINDENBERG I/ALLGÄU |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into a structured panel layout with a scalloped inner border. Two oval portrait vignettes, each set within a laurel wreath, occupy the central field side by side, representing the classical-era poets Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (left) and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (right), each identified by a ribbon scroll beneath. Wheat-ear ornaments fill the lateral panels, and the denomination '50' appears in all four corners; the upper and lower registers carry the thematic inscriptions in Gothic script. |
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Lauchstädt — properly Bad Lauchstädt — was a small Saale Valley spa town whose claim to fame was Goethe's personal involvement in its theatre, built in 1802 and still standing. The municipal government issuing emergency currency here in 1921 was operating under the same inflationary pressures that forced hundreds of German towns to print their own Notgeld, but the Magistrat chose J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, a Bavarian printer well outside Saxony-Anhalt who produced significant volumes of municipal emergency issues during this period.
Lindenberg was a known hub for Notgeld production precisely because local printers in distressed municipalities often lacked capacity.