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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Roda in Altenburg (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 set against a grey ground and printed in black, red, and green. At the top, a bold blackletter heading reads 'Historia von Doctor Johan Fausten'; flanking a central green heraldic shield bearing a white stylised castle vignette, two columns of blackletter text recount an excerpt from the Faust legend. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in large red letterpress numerals at lower left and right, with issuing authority text and validity clause centred below the shield, including the date 30.9.1921 and a facsimile signature of the Stadtrat. Along the bottom margin runs the thematic caption 'D. Fausti Buhlschaft mit Helena aus Graecia'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vivid full-field colour vignette on a blue cross-hatched ground, illustrating a scene from the Faust legend in an Expressionist woodcut style signed 'Kolschau' in the upper left corner: a seated dark-robed figure with outstretched hand directs beams of red light toward a luminous golden female figure standing at right, with a fantastical winged creature in the upper background. A bold yellow and black panel at the base bears the denomination '50' in red at either side flanking the blackletter inscription 'Notgelds der Stadt Roda', with the printer's imprint 'Druck von E. Giltsch / Jena' in small script beneath. |
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Roda in Altenburg — today called Rodewisch, or more precisely the town now known as Roda, part of the Altenburger Land district — issued this note during the acute small-change famine of 1921, when coin metal remained scarce and the Reichsbank could not keep fractional currency in circulation. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own Kleingeldersatz that year, but Eduard Giltsch of Jena was a cut above the typical local job printer: the firm had a long reputation in fine lithographic and academic printing, which shows in the production quality of notes it handled for Thuringian issuers.