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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Cities of Hildburghausen, Eisfeld, Themar, Römhild, Heldburg, and Ummerstadt |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in dark blue and red, with a bold Fraktur header inscription across the top. A central circular vignette presents a hilltop castle or fortified town silhouette against a white ground, framed by a deep blue border. The names of the six issuing towns are arranged in two vertical columns flanking the vignette, with the denomination "50 Pfennig" in large red numerals at lower left and right, and a validity clause in Fraktur script below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground with a thin blue rectangular border frame. A row of six heraldic municipal coat-of-arms shields, each rendered in dark blue, runs horizontally across the centre of the note. A serial number is printed in red at the top above the shields, and the denomination "50 Pfennig" appears in large red Fraktur numerals in the lower half. |
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This is Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip issued collaboratively by six small Thuringian towns during the coin shortage that gripped Germany in the First World War. The joint issuance across Hildburghausen, Eisfeld, Themar, Römhild, Heldburg, and Ummerstadt was a practical administrative decision: these towns had historically formed the core of the Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and existing municipal relationships made a shared issue workable where individual town finances might not have justified the printing cost alone.
Wartime hoarding of silver and copper coinage made low-denomination paper a necessity rather than a choice by 1917.