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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Roda in Altenburg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1127.1-5/8 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a full-width Gothic blackletter title inscription reading "Historia von Doctor Johan Fausten" at the top, with a continuous narrative text in Old German script flanking a central vignette of a stylized city gate or fortified building rendered in green and white. Large red denomination numerals "50 Pf." appear at lower left and right, with central issuing text reading "Notgeld der Stadt Roda in Altenburg" including validity date "30.9.1921" and the countersignature of Der Stadtrat. A caption line at the foot reads "3: Fausti Reise in etliche Königreich u. Fürstentumb". |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large multicolour pictorial vignette in an expressionist woodcut style, portraying a cloaked rider in red astride a galloping black horse, interpreted as Faust riding the Devil across a landscape with a village visible at lower right. A yellow banner at the foot bears the black Gothic inscription "Notgeld der Stadt Roda" flanked by the denomination numeral "50" on each side. The printer's imprint "Druck: E. Giltsch / Jena" appears below the banner. |
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Roda — renamed Rodewisch? No, this is Roda in Altenburg, a small Thuringian town that joined the wave of municipal Kleingeldersatz issuances that flooded Germany in 1921 as coin shortages became chronic. The Stadtrat here commissioned Eduard Giltsch of Jena, a respected regional printer with a long history of quality commercial and cartographic work, giving these notes a cut above the crudest municipal emergency issues of the period.
The DeNG reference catalogues five design variants (suffixes 1 through 5/8), suggesting the city issued across multiple series — unusual volume for a municipality of Roda's modest size.