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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Municipality of Kalbsrieth (Thuringia) (Federal state of Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld note with a floral Art Nouveau border of pink wild roses and green foliage on a dark ground. Central vignette shows a rural landscape view of the village of Kalbsrieth with a domed church tower amid trees. Denomination numeral 50 appears at upper left and lower right corners; marginal vertical text reads "Erinnerungsschein" and "Rätselschein". |
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| Reverse lettering | Nämnahn am Spinette speelt Rosalte Hie kränst dn Novalis Notalie He schrieb jo jans wunderschiene Dn Ostärdingen inr Odärner Soline |
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Kalbsrieth is a village in the Kyffhäuserland district — a genuinely minor settlement to be issuing its own emergency currency. This note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Germany between 1921 and 1922, when chronic coin shortages and rampant inflation drove thousands of municipalities, no matter how small, to print their own fractional scrip. Adolf Forker of Leipzig handled a substantial volume of this municipal work, and their output for small Thuringian communities tends to be neat if undistinguished.
Kalbsrieth issues are uncommon simply because the issuing population was tiny.