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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinden Oberweißbach, Cursdorf, Deesbach und Lichtenhain (Municipalities of Oberweißbach, Cursdorf, Deesbach, and Lichtenhain) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned Notgeld note printed in brown letterpress on plain paper. A central vignette renders two male workers in period labourers' attire bracing long poles against a large boulder set among trees, executed in a detailed illustrative style. The denomination 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig' appears in Gothic Fraktur script at the left, while the issuing municipalities and date 'den 1. Juli 1921' are inscribed at the upper right, with facsimile signatures of the Gemeindevorständebelow and a serial number at the lower right; the printer's imprint 'Wiedemannsche Druckerei A:G. Saalfeld i. Th.' runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zur Bergeshöh für wenig Geld, Trägt Dich die steilste Bahn der Welt. 50 Pf. |
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Four small Thuringian villages — Oberweißbach, Cursdorf, Deesbach, and Lichtenhain — pooled their authority to issue this note jointly during the Kleingeldnot of the early Weimar period, when coin shortages made small-denomination paper an administrative necessity across Germany. Joint municipal issuers at this scale are genuinely uncommon in Notgeld; most Gemeinden acted alone.
Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG in Saalfeld produced a substantial volume of regional emergency currency during 1921, serving numerous Thuringian municipalities that lacked access to larger printing houses.