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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roßbach, Kreis Querfurt |
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| Designer(s) | C. Jacob |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ROSSBACH KREIS QUERFURT 50 Pf. GEMEINDE ROSSBACH KREIS QUERFURT GÜLTIG BIS 1 MONAT NACH UNGÜLTIGKEITSERKLÄRUNG IM KREISBLATT. DER GEMEINDEVORSTEHER C. Jacob. GERTH & OPPENRIEDER, GERA. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width colour lithographic battle scene vignette illustrating the Battle of Rossbach of 5 November 1757, with mounted officers and infantry in 18th-century uniform in vigorous melee, captured flags and a fallen drummer among the combatants, all enclosed within a red and ochre decorative border. A yellow cartouche at the top bears the title DIE SCHLACHT BEI ROSSBACH / 5. Nov. 1757. Below the vignette, a three-line verse in blackletter type runs across the full width of the note. |
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Roßbach was a small village in Kreis Querfurt, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of comparable Gemeinden across Germany it resorted to locally authorized Notgeld during the acute small-change shortages of 1917–1921. The printer, Hofdruckerei Gerth & Oppenrieder of Gera, was a regional commercial house that supplied Notgeld to numerous Thuringian and Saxon municipalities during this period — not one of the major specialist printers, but competent and prolific in this niche.
The designer credit to C. Jacob is unusual enough to survive in the catalog record, which suggests the commission had some deliberate local character rather than being pulled from stock artwork.