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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Köstritz (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in a bold silhouette woodcut style in black and yellow on white paper, within a double-rule border with asterisk corner ornaments. The central vignette presents a genre scene set among bare trees: a standing male figure in period dress raises a glass aloft while a seated female figure at right also holds a glass, with a dog and scattered picnic items at their feet, evoking a celebration of Köstritz black beer. Circular denomination medallions bearing '50' in yellow numerals are placed at the upper left and upper right corners, and a three-line verse inscription in Gothic type runs across the upper portion of the field. |
| Reverse lettering | SCHWARZES BIER AUS KOSTRITZ DU! SÜSSE LABE GUTE RUH 50 50 |
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Köstritz notgeld from the early 1920s inflation period, issued by the municipality when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. These small paper emergency issues were produced by the thousands across Thuringia, often by local printers with no particular security printing capability — authenticity rested almost entirely on the issuing authority's stamp or signature rather than any technical anti-counterfeiting measure.
Köstritz is better known today as the birthplace of Heinrich Schütz, the baroque composer, a fact local issuers occasionally leveraged in notgeld design during this period.