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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Gebesee |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 95 x 73 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a full-width woodcut-style vignette in dark brown and orange-red on cream paper, illustrating a medieval scene of armed soldiers and kneeling captives before a hilltop fortress, rendered in an expressionist graphic style. A scrolled banner at the lower margin carries the commemorative inscription referencing Kaiser Rudolf and the Tretenburg. The artist's name 'R. Hanf, Erfurt' is inscribed beneath the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | Bei dem Thüringer Raubrittergericht / verschont Kaiser Rudolf die Tretenburg nicht. R. Hanf-Erfurt. |
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Gebesee is a small town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, its local Magistrat issued Notgeld to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the post-WWI economy. These local emergency issues were produced in enormous variety during 1920–1922, and Kirchner's Erfurt print shop handled a significant share of the regional output — the same press turned out Notgeld for numerous Thuringian towns in this period.
Collector demand for German municipal Notgeld was already developing while the notes were still in print, which means many Gebesee examples were pulled from circulation early and saved intentionally.