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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Igelshieb (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued by the municipality of Igelshieb a/Rennsteig, printed in a two-tone palette of purple and ochre. The upper vignette presents a silhouette of a dense conifer forest against a grey sky, while the lower portion displays a rocky landscape with a large scallop-edged roundel bearing the denomination numeral '50' at centre. The place name 'IGELSHIEB' is rendered in large ochre letters across the lower field, with the date '1. APRIL 1921' and the issuing authority 'DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND' inscribed below, accompanied by a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in purple and ochre on a light grey vertically lined underprint. A central oval vignette illustrates a winter scene at a rural railway halt, with a steam locomotive and freight wagon on the left, telegraph poles along the track, and a group of figures on a sledge to the right, set against a snow-covered landscape with a dark treeline. The denomination 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIG' is lettered in bold across the top flanked by the numeral '50' in each corner, while 'IGELSHIEB A/RENNSTEIG' runs along the bottom margin; the printer's imprint 'AUG. HEINECKE, RUDOLSTADT' appears at lower right. |
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Igelshieb is a small village in the Thuringian Forest — small enough that its notgeld issue is more a bureaucratic curiosity than a monetary intervention. The 1921 Kleingeldscheine wave produced thousands of these municipal emergency pfennig notes across Germany as coin shortages from the war years persisted long after the armistice, and Heinecke in Rudolstadt was one of the regional printers who handled the workload for surrounding communities too minor to attract the larger specialist houses.
Aug. Heinecke's output for rural Thuringian issuers during this period tends toward plain typography over the decorative collector-bait designs that dominated the notgeld market by 1921.