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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Triebes, Reuss |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow guilloche underprint with ornate floral and architectural border vignettes at left and right, each enclosing a stylized archway with trees. The central text in blackletter script reads "GUTSCHEIN der Stadtgemeinde Triebes/Reuss. über Fünfzig Pfennig", with the numeral 50 in bold at each lower corner. Below the denomination, validity text and the issuance date "Triebes 1.3.1920" appear alongside a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Signature(s) | Müller (Bürgermeister) |
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Triebes was a small industrial town in the Reuss principality, absorbed into Thuringia only a year before this note appeared. The issuer — the Stadtgemeinde, not a bank — reflects how thoroughly the 1919–1921 Kleingeldersatz crisis devolved responsibility for small-change provision onto municipalities, factories, and even private businesses when the Reichsbank could not keep coins in circulation.
Künstlerpresse Dresden was an art press, not a commercial banknote printer, and that choice shows in notes of this series — the production values exceed what most comparable Notgeld commands.