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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schmiedefeld (Municipality of Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Schmiedefeld Notgeld der Gemeinde Schmiedefeld Glasindustrie- u. Luftkurort 720 m.ü.d.M. Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Schmiedefeld i/ Thüringen Gemeindevorstand Fünfzig Pfennig Fünfzig Pfennig ENTW. u. DRUCK GRAPH. WERKSTÄTTEN G.m.b.H. ILMENAU |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a large woodcut-style vignette of a forest logging scene captioned 'Forstwirtschaft i. Schmiedefeld', with timber workers felling and sawing trees amid a wooded Thuringian landscape, framed by chain-link border pillars and oak-leaf panels at upper corners. The denomination '50' and 'Pfg' appear in bold type at upper left and right respectively. Below the vignette, a two-line verse in blackletter script occupies a ruled panel across the full width of the note. |
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Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig is a village in the Thuringian highlands, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the Kleingeldnot of 1917–1922, it issued its own emergency small-change notes when coins disappeared from circulation — hoarded for their metal content or swallowed by wartime procurement. Graphische Werkstätten G.m.b.H. in Ilmenau was a regional printer that handled a significant volume of this Thuringian notgeld business, supplying nearby communities that lacked access to larger printing houses.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1 through .5/6) indicate multiple serial or color printings within the same issue — not unusual for notgeld that had to be reprinted as demand outpaced initial runs.