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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lauscha (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a tan ground in a multicolour letterpress style characteristic of Thuringian Notgeld. The upper register carries a green guilloche-patterned background strewn with hand-painted-style Christmas ornaments — red, white, and striped glass balls — suspended from festive garland swags. At centre, an oval vignette framed by a wreath of fir branches and red baubles presents a craftsman seated at a workbench blowing a glass sphere, referencing Lauscha's world-renowned glass ornament industry. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in large red and black Gothic numerals at lower left and right, with the issuer name 'Lauscha S.-M.' and date 'April 1921' inscribed in black Gothic script flanking the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Lauscha S.-M. 1597 · 1905 In aller Welt Lauschaer Christbaumschmuck gefällt |
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Lauscha, in the Thuringian highlands, was the center of Germany's glass ornament and toy industry — a manufacturing town of a few thousand people whose local Notgeld issues reflect the economic dislocation of the early Weimar inflation spiral rather than any municipal banking ambition. This 50 Pfennig note was part of a broader wave of small-denomination emergency money issued across thousands of German municipalities in 1921, when coin shortages made fractional transactions genuinely difficult.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog or digitization error — that date falls on the final day of Hitler's life and well within the Reich's collapse, when Thuringian Notgeld from 1921 would have been worthless paper for over two decades.