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50 Pfennig Industry Series
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck), Thuringia |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two vertical panels. The left panel, printed in yellow-green with a diagonal text underprint repeating the phrase 'SEGEN-BRINGT-SICH-REGEN', carries the Gothic-script issuer inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck' above the municipal coat of arms — a blue shield charged with a black lion passant, surmounted by a mural crown and flanked by oak-leaf sprays — with the printer's imprint 'Kühlborn · Pößneck' at the foot. The right panel presents a fine guilloche underprint in pale rose, at whose centre sits a large lozenge-shaped denomination vignette in orange and black reading '50 Pf', with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in red at all four corners; above, a Gothic-script validity notice reads 'Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Bekanntmachung', and below, the manuscript signatures appear beneath the legend 'Magistrat und Gemeinderat:'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is likewise bipartite. The left panel, framed in brown, carries at the top a small denomination cartouche 'Pf. 50 Pf.' in the same lozenge device, beneath which a Gothic-script advertising legend reads 'Alles Wissen in sich vereinen / Die Fachblätter, die in Pößneck erscheinen', accompanied by a small vignette of a compositor seated at a typesetting machine captioned 'An der Setzmaschine'. The larger right panel presents a detailed intaglio-style vignette of a composing room (Setzerei), with two typesetters working at sloped composing frames in the foreground and further workers visible in the background under pendant lamps, the scene captioned 'Setzerei' at the top; the denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner of the brown border frame, and a monogram device is printed at the lower right. |
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Pößneck was a small but industrially active town in Thuringia — leather goods and porcelain manufacturing kept it economically viable through the inflationary years when municipal notgeld became a practical necessity rather than a collector's novelty. The Stadt issued this series through the local printer Kühlborn, which was unusual; most municipalities of comparable size outsourced to larger specialist printers in Leipzig or Berlin. A print run just over twelve million is substantial for a community of that scale, suggesting aggressive distribution across the surrounding region rather than purely local use.