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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roßbach (Municipality of Rossbach), Kreis Querfurt |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned notgeld note with a teal geometric border frame enclosing a central heraldic shield vignette of a rearing white horse above the inscriptions 'ROSSBACH' and 'KREIS QUERFURT', with crossed keys at the base of the shield. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in bold letterpress at left and right flanking the central device, with a secondary vignette of mining tools and a cogwheel at lower left and an agricultural implement with grain at lower right. A validity clause in German appears at lower left, and the manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (municipal headman) is placed at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE BEOBACHTET AUF DEM BODEN DES HERRENHAUSES IN ROSSBACH DURCH EINE DACHLUKE DEN ANMARSCH DES FEINDES AM 5. NOVEMBER 1757 NACHMITTAGS GEGEN 2 UHR. |
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Roßbach is a small village in the Querfurt district of Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the postwar currency shortages of 1918–1922 when small-denomination coins essentially vanished from circulation. The Hofdruckerei Gerth & Oppenrieder in Gera was a prolific provincial printer of such emergency issues — not a prestige house, but competent and reliable, handling commissions from dozens of Thuringian and Saxon communities simultaneously.
Designer credit to C. Jacob is more than most small-commune Notgeld carries.