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50 Pfennig Unification Series
| Issuer | Stadtrat Zella-Mehlis (City Council of Zella-Mehlis) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper half of the obverse carries a landscape vignette of the Thuringian Forest with two interlocking oval medallions at centre, each bearing a portrait bust — a robed bishop with mitre at left and a young woman at right — set against radiating line underprint in ochre and brown. A curved banderole above reads 'Notgeld der Stadt Zella-Mehlis' in Gothic script. The lower register is divided into three panels: a letterpress vignette of the town church at left, a central text panel on yellow-ochre ground bearing the issue date and serial number with a manuscript signature above, and a vignette of a second church building at right; the printer's imprint 'OTTO RICHTERS & Co. ERFURT' appears at the very foot. |
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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. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pink, ochre, and brown, with the denomination '50' in octagonal cartouches at upper left and right corners. The central vignette shows a young woman holding a chalice at left and a robed bishop carrying a staff at right, flanking a large oak tree with an industrial townscape in the middle distance; vertical side panels carry engraved depictions of firearms and edged tools, referencing the town's metalworking and arms-manufacturing trades. A two-part rhyming couplet in Gothic script runs across the lower margin. |
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