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50 Pfennig Rudelsburg

Issuer Bad Kösen, City of
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Type Local banknote
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Obverse lettering Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig
5. Franz Kugler schrieb dieses Lied im Jahre 1826 auf der Rudelsburg
Gültig im Schänkensverkehr der Burg bis 1 Monat nach Abruf
Burgwirt
Druck: Eduard Giltsch Jena
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Reverse lettering Wolken ziehen drüber hin.
50
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Bad Kösen is a small spa town on the Saale in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute small-change crisis of 1917–1922. The Rudelsburg, a ruined medieval castle visible from the Saale valley above the town, was a popular subject for regional Notgeld designers, carrying enough local identity to distinguish one town's scrip from another's in a crowded field.

Eduard Giltsch in Jena was a well-regarded regional printer with a solid Notgeld output across Thuringia. Röhrhau's design credit is relatively uncommon for issues of this type — most municipal Notgeld went unsigned.

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