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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Siebleben (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Justus Perthes, Gotha, Germany |
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| Obverse description | A panoramic vignette of the village of Siebleben occupies the upper portion of the note, rendered in a detailed landscape style with the church tower rising above surrounding rooftops against a clouded sky. The lower section carries the denomination numerals '50' at left and the abbreviation 'Pf.' at right, flanking a central text panel with validity clause and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister over a lightly printed municipal seal underprint. The entire design is framed by a decorative border of repeating geometric and foliate motifs in brown and gold tones. |
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| Reverse description | No reverse image provided; the reverse design of this Notgeld note is not described. |
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Siebleben was a small village on the outskirts of Gotha, and its notgeld was almost certainly printed by Justus Perthes as a commercial convenience — the firm was one of Germany's most respected cartographic and geographic publishers, headquartered in Gotha, and took on local emergency currency commissions during the 1920–1922 notgeld peak when the paper shortage and coin hoarding crisis made small-denomination scrip a practical necessity for even minor municipalities.
Justus Perthes is better known for Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen than for currency work, which gives these small Thuringian issues a mildly incongruous pedigree.