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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Eisfeld, Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into a central vignette and two flanking denomination panels, all framed by an ornate gold and black border with decorative scrollwork. The central vignette renders a lively market scene on the Eisfeld town square, with townsfolk, merchants, horse-drawn wagons, and the church tower visible in the background, executed in a detailed polychrome lithographic style and signed by the artist. At bottom centre sits a red circular town seal bearing a heraldic lion, surrounded by acanthus leaf ornament, while the validity clause appears at lower left and the issuing authority's date and signature at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Eisfeld i. Thür. 50 Pfennig Giltig bis 1 Monat nach Aufkündigung Eisfeld, August 1921 der Magistrat |
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Eisfeld is a small town on the upper Werra river in southern Thuringia, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany during the postwar coin shortage. At the height of the Notgeld boom, hundreds of Thuringian municipalities contracted regional printers rather than the major Leipzig or Berlin houses — Scharfes Druckereien in Wetzlar was one of several mid-tier operations that picked up this overflow work.
Eisfeld's series is among the more obscure Thuringian issues, with limited documentation of surviving quantities. Collectors should note that Wetzlar-printed Notgeld from this period sometimes shows inconsistent ink adhesion on the reverse due to fast-turnaround production runs.