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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roßla am Kyffhäuser |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue in green, yellow, and black letterpress. At top, a ribbon banner in Gothic script carries the issuer inscription across the full width of the note. The denomination oval, bearing '50 Pfg' in bold Gothic type, is centrally placed above a vignette of Schloss Roßla rendered in fine line engraving. Two circular seals flank the central vignette: the left seal shows a rearing horse with a sunburst and the legend 'GEMEINDE ROSSLA', while the right seal bears a stag and the legend 'GRAFSCHAFT STOLBERG ROSSLA'. Below the vignette, the validity clause is set in Gothic script alongside a handwritten signature and a serial number at lower left, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sein Bart ist nicht von Glachse, er ist von Feuersglut, ist durch den Tisch gewachsen, worauf sein Kinn ausruht. |
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Roßla am Kyffhäuser is a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, and its participation in the Kleingeldersatz boom of 1921 was typical of hundreds of German municipalities scrambling to fill the coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitions and postwar hoarding. The interesting detail here is the printer: Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a municipal print shop — a town council press — rather than a specialist security printer, which explains why designer Georg Schleinitz is credited separately. Local jobbing shops frequently brought in freelance artists to compensate for their own limited design capability.
Glauchau lies well over 200 kilometers from Roßla, an unusually long supply chain for notgeld of this denomination.