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| Emittent | Stadt Heldburg (City of Heldburg, Thuringia) |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
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| Form | Rectangular |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Notgeld der Stadt Heldburg Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Heldburg 1921 Fünfzig Pfennig Fünfzig Pfennig i. Bürgermeister Stadtkämmerer |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels against a dark navy border with a wave-pattern frame: the left and right panels each carry the denomination numeral '50' in large red figures above and 'Pfennig' below in matching red Gothic lettering, with a poetic inscription in black Gothic script set on a cream ground between them. The central panel presents a colour lithographic view of the Schlosshof (castle courtyard) in Heldburg, labelled 'Schlosshof' in a small cartouche at the upper centre, rendered in a picturesque style with a conical tower, half-timbered buildings, and surrounding foliage. |
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Heldburg is a small Thuringian town best known for the Veste Heldburg, a hilltop castle that Bismarck once described as the "Franconian Lantern" for its prominence above the surrounding plain. Its appearance on a municipal emergency note is a reminder of just how far the Notgeld phenomenon reached — even communities of a few thousand residents were issuing their own scrip by 1921, partly out of practical necessity and partly because elaborately printed local notes had become a minor collecting craze that municipalities exploited to generate income.
Schneider & Co. in Ilmenau handled a substantial volume of Thuringian Notgeld during this period, and the DeNG reference number suggests at least three distinct design variants within this issue.