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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Langensalza (Der Magistrat) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in teal, black, and pale yellow on cream paper, with a symmetrical layout centred on the large blackground denomination vignette reading '50 Pfennig' in bold Gothic lettering, flanked by two circular medallions each bearing the numeral '50' set within ornate guilloche rosettes. At upper centre, a Fraktur heading reads 'Gutschein Reihe X Nr.' followed by a printed serial number, with the issuer legend 'der Stadt Langensalza / für' below. In the lower left quarter, an embossed dry seal of the city of Langensalza is applied, above two manuscript signatures over the authority line 'Der Magistrat'. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Langensalza — now Bad Langensalza in Thuringia — issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that struck German municipalities almost immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914. The Magistrat, the town's civic executive body, acted as issuer rather than any banking institution, which was entirely typical of the emergency scrip arrangements that proliferated across hundreds of German towns between 1914 and 1923. The embossed seal substituted for the printing security that a commercial issuer could not provide cheaply or quickly.
Langensalza carries a particular irony for a town issuing wartime currency: it was the site of the 1866 battle in which Hanoverian forces briefly defeated Prussian troops before Hanover's final capitulation, ending its independence.