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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 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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 description | The reverse is printed in brown on a cream ground and carries a panoramic landscape vignette of the Oberweißbacher Bergbahn — the steepest standard-gauge funicular railway in the world — ascending through a forest cutting flanked by coniferous trees, with a railway carriage visible in the middle ground. Folkloric dwarf figures in pointed caps stand at either side as decorative supporters, while denomination cartouches reading '50 Pf.' appear at lower left and right. A decorative border of interlocking geometric ornament frames the entire composition, and a two-line verse in Fraktur is inscribed in a ribbon panel along the lower edge. |
| Reverse lettering | Zur Bergeshöh für wenig Geld, Trägt Dich die steilste Bahn der Welt. 50 Pf. |
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