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50 Pfennig Unification Series
| Issuer | Zella-Mehlis, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 86 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | The upper half of the obverse carries a panoramic Thuringian forest landscape vignette, above which a ribbon scroll bears the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script. At the centre, two interlocking oval medallions contain bust portraits of a bishop in mitre and a young woman, set against a radiating background. The lower register is divided into three panels: a vignette of a church building at left, a central text cartouche on an ochre ground with the validity clause, date, municipal authority designation, and serial number, and a further architectural vignette at right; the printer's imprint appears along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Zella-Mehlis im Thüringerwald Dieser Schein verliert seine Giltigkeit vier Wochen nach Aufruf. Zella-Mehlis im November 1921 DER STADTRAT Nr. OTTO RICHTERS & Co. ERFURT |
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Zella-Mehlis was itself a brand-new city in 1921, formed only in 1919 by the administrative merger of the neighboring Thuringian towns of Zella St. Blasii and Mehlis. The "Unification Series" title is therefore not decorative — it directly commemorates that merger, making this notgeld unusual in that its thematic content is autobiographical rather than folkloric or promotional.
Otto Richters & Co. of Erfurt produced a substantial volume of Thuringian municipal notgeld during this period, and the print quality is generally reliable across their runs.