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50 Pfennig Municipalities Series - Krölpa
| Issuer | Kreis Ziegenrück (District of Ziegenrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of the Kreishaus (district administrative building) rendered in multicolour lithography, set within an elaborate guilloche border with scrollwork ornaments in green and blue tones; denomination numeral '50' appears in yellow on dark circular cartouches at lower left and right. Small vignettes of Schloss Brandenstein (Ranis) and Schloss Ziegenrück appear in the upper corners, each captioned in italic script. The lower panel, printed in grey, carries the issuing authority inscription in bold letterpress, the date 'Ranis, den 30.7.1921', serial number, and a manuscript signature above the title 'Kreisdeputierter'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Schloss Brandenstein. KROLPA Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufruf. |
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Kreis Ziegenrück was one of the smallest administrative districts in Thuringia — a narrow strip of land along the Saale valley with a population that barely justified its own currency. The Ziegenrück notgeld issues of 1921 came late in the municipal emergency money wave, by which point many German towns were printing collector-oriented series as much as genuine circulating currency. Whether these actually passed between hands in Krölpa's shops or went straight into philatelic envelopes is a fair question.
The Wiedemannsche Druckerei in Saalfeld handled a number of Thuringian notgeld commissions during this period, operating close enough to the issuing districts to turn around small runs quickly.