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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Eckartsberga |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Round reverse printed in black on tan paper, centred on a woodcut-style bust portrait of Martin Luther facing three-quarters left, initialled 'F.B.' at lower right. A circular Gothic-script legend runs the full perimeter of the inner ring, quoting a verse from Luther's hymn 'Ein feste Burg'. |
| Reverse lettering | Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär, und wollt uns gar verschlingen, so fürchten wir uns nicht so sehr, es soll uns doch gelingen; Und wenn die Hölle |
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Eckartsberga is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, its local government stepped in to print its own fractional currency when the Reichsbank could not keep small-denomination coin in circulation fast enough to meet demand. This was the Kleingeldersatz phenomenon — emergency substitute coinage in paper form — driven by postwar metal shortages and the early inflationary pressures that would fully detonate by 1923.
Reineck & Klein of Weimar handled a considerable volume of this municipal notgeld work across Thuringia. The print run for a community this size would have been modest, and local redemption periods were often short and poorly publicized, leaving many notes unredeemed by design or neglect.