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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Tannroda (City of Tannroda), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark navy blue on a fine wavy-line guilloche background that covers the entire field. A large central oval medallion bears the municipal coat of arms of Tannroda — a shield with a fir tree — encircled by the legend 'STADT TANNRODA IN THÜRINGEN' and the founding year '1414', all surrounded by a decorative scalloped border. Two flanking oval cartouches, each framed by a similar ornamental border, carry the numeral '50' in bold serif type. A handwritten serial number appears in the upper right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | STADT TANNRODA IN THÜRINGEN 1414 50 50 |
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Tannroda is a small village in the Ilm district of Thuringia — population in the early 1920s was well under a thousand. That it issued its own emergency currency at all is a function of the Weimar-era Notgeld system, which briefly allowed municipalities of virtually any size to print fractional notes when coin shortages made small transactions impossible. Thousands of German towns did the same in 1921, many exploiting the opportunity to produce collectible regional designs that were sold to hobbyists rather than spent.
Whether Tannroda's issue ever saw genuine circulation or was printed primarily for the collector trade is the more interesting question.