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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Ronneburg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 80 × 57 mm |
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| Reverse description | Blue-toned reverse with a decorative scrollwork border in blue and black framing a central arched vignette. Within the arch, a detailed letterpress illustration of the Ronneburg Town Hall (Rathaus) is set against a lightly shaded sky, with trees in the foreground. The denomination "50 Pfennig" appears in bold Fraktur type in each upper corner. The printer's imprint is inscribed in small text at the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig Rathaus |
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Ronneburg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second major wave of German municipal emergency money, when the Reichsbank's inability to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage forced thousands of local authorities to fill the gap themselves. Kunstanstalt Gerth & Oppenrieder in nearby Gera handled a substantial volume of Thuringian Notgeld during this period, serving dozens of small towns across the region.
Ronneburg itself sits at the edge of the Ronneburger Hügelland, historically tied to alum mining — a detail local issuers occasionally worked into their Notgeld imagery, though the collector appeal of these series was already driving design choices as much as civic identity.