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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtrat Kronach (City Council of Kronach, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette bears the heraldic coat of arms of Kronach — a quartered shield with roses and crowns, supported by two classically rendered male figures in red and black — set within an elaborate baroque cartouche surmounted by scrollwork and a torch finial. Flanking panels on each side carry the denomination numeral '50' in an oval surround. The designer's name 'F. SCHWARZ' is lettered at the base of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Kronach Fünfzig Pfennig 50 F. SCHWARZ |
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Kronach notgeld from 1921 places this squarely in the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — after the wartime shortages but before hyperinflation made small-denomination paper essentially worthless by late 1922. The Stadtrat was one of hundreds of Bavarian municipal bodies issuing their own scrip to compensate for a chronic shortage of Reich coins still not flowing adequately through local commerce.
F. Schwarz is credited as designer, suggesting local artistic commission rather than a standard commercial printer's stock layout. Kronach's notes under this series are catalogued at DeNG 2#747.1, indicating a documented but modestly collected issue.