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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Lobenstein (Thüringen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green and black notgeld note with a decorative border of radiating lines and a rectangular frame. The upper portion bears the large Gothic-script title 'Heimatfestnотgeld der Stadt Lobenstein Thüringen' above a landscape vignette of a hilltop tower and surrounding countryside rendered in dark letterpress. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears within a circular guilloche medallion at lower centre, flanked by the validity date 'Gültig bis zum 31. August 1921,' a manuscript serial number, and two facsimile signatures with place and date 'Lobenstein, Juli 1921.' |
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| Reverse lettering | Heimatfest Lobenstein 16 bis 24 Juli 1921 Ein Gruss aus fernen Tagen, standhaft im Zeitensturm, Seh ich vom Hügel ragen den alten grauen Turm, Geschlechter auf Geschlechter sah kommen er und gehn, Er war ein treuer Wächter, was immer auch geschehn. Notgeld der Stadt Lobenstein (Thür.) |
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Lobenstein is a small town in the Thuringian highlands, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small change when the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under postwar inflation pressure. This is Notgeld in its most practical, unglamorous form — a local stopgap, not a collector series. The DeNG 2#809.2 reference places it within a documented second type for the issue, implying at least one earlier variant exists for the same denomination.
The watermark is worth noting: most low-denomination municipal Notgeld of this period used plain stock, so its presence here suggests the town sourced from a commercial paper supplier rather than printing in-house.