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50 Pfennigs "U" blue
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Erfurt (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen jederzeit in Zahlung genommen, er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird Notgeld der Stadt Erfurt Erfurt, den 7. April 1921 Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | Blue-ground expressionist woodcut-style vignette occupying the full field, rendered in black, showing a robed monk confronted by a menacing wolf-like demonic figure amid stylised trees, evoking a scene from Luther's life. Gothic-script quotations in vertical border panels flank the composition on left and right. Printer's imprint 'Otto Richters u. Co. Erfurt' at lower right. |
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Erfurt's 1921 Notgeld series was divided by letter codes — the "U" designation identifies this as part of a sub-series issued to manage a specific tranche of the city's emergency money circulation, not a separate denomination or a collector variant. J. Banf was a local Erfurt printer, which is exactly what you'd expect for municipal Notgeld of this period: city magistrates typically contracted nearby commercial printers rather than specialist security printers, keeping costs down and turnaround fast.
The blue colorway distinguishes this piece from other denominations in the 344-series. DeNG 1#344.4 places it precisely within Grabowski and Mehl's cataloguing of Thuringian issues.