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50 Pfennig Districts Series - Langenwolschendorf
| Issuer | Zeulenroda (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Black central band carries the municipal coat of arms of Zeulenroda at centre, rendered within a gold cartouche and showing a crowned lion above a crenellated wall; the denomination numeral '50' with Pfennig symbol appears in blue-grey to left and right. A white scroll banner above bears a four-line German verse in red letterpress, while the lower white panel carries the issuing authority inscription, validity clause, date, and the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister, all printed in red against a gold-orange border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZEULENRODA = L·WOLSCHENDORF 50 Pf IM KÜHLEN SCHATTEN DIESER LINDE, VERSAMLE OFT GEMEINDE DICH IN STETER EINIGKEIT VERBINDE EIN NACHBAR HIER DEM ANDERN SICH |
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Zeulenroda's 1921 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the so-called "Districts Series," a coordinated set of small-denomination emergency notes issued by the city and keyed to specific localities in the surrounding Thuringian countryside. Langenwolschendorf — a village northeast of Zeulenroda — was one of several named districts given its own note within the series, a localist touch common to Thuringian municipalities that treated notgeld as much as a civic document as a monetary stopgap.
Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz handled the printing, a regional firm that produced notgeld for multiple Thuringian issuers during the inflationary period. The reference suffix .2-4/10 indicates this is one of several variants within the 1470 type grouping.