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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Wünschendorf an der Elster, Gemeinde (Municipality) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld Wünschendorf Der Zeitpunkt mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird in der Weidaer Zeitung bekannt gemacht. Wünschendorf a. d. Elster, den 20. September 1921. Der Gemeindevorstand Im Siegel der Gemeinde Wünschendorf a. d. E. |
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| Reverse lettering | St. Veit. Anno 1168. GRAFF ERKENBERT U. SEIN SONE HABEN WIEDERUMB VERNEWERT UND ERBAWET ST. VEIT. 1168. UAS DEVS ROC SIGNA PLEBS SALVA SIT AVRA BERIG DIES GEFÄSS GOTT WOLL ES WEIHEN DEM VOLK SEI HEIL, IM WETTER GEDEIHEN. |
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Wünschendorf an der Elster is a small municipality in Thuringia, and this 50 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1921 — the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar coin metal policies and drove thousands of German towns to issue their own emergency paper. Hofdruckerei Gerth & Oppenrieder in nearby Gera handled a significant volume of such Notgeld commissions from Thuringian municipalities during this period, functioning essentially as a regional production hub for local authorities too small to manage printing independently.
The note's useful life was intentionally brief — most Gemeinde Notgeld of this type was declared invalid within a year of issue, often by mid-1922 as inflationary pressures made the denominations economically irrelevant.