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| Emittent | Ehrenfriedersdorf, City of |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is dominated by a large, dark-toned vignette executed in an expressive illustrative style, occupying the full width of the note within a ruled border. The scene depicts several miners resting or collapsed within a timbered underground mine shaft, evoking exhaustion or distress. The denomination '1 Mk.' appears in bold type at the upper right corner outside the vignette frame. Below the main image, a two-line biblical quotation from Psalm 90 is inscribed at the lower left, while the lower right records the historical reference '1568. Oswald Barthel's Auffindung im Sauberg.' |
| Rückseitenlegende | NOTGELD der Stadt EHRENFRIEDERSDORF 1 Mk. Ps. 90 Du lässest die Menschen dahin fahren wie einen Strom. 1568. Oswald Barthel's Auffindung im Sauberg. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Ehrenfriedersdorf, a small mining town in the Erzgebirge, issued this note during the acute coin shortage that swept Germany in the early 1920s. Municipalities, local businesses, and even individual shops printed their own emergency currency — Notgeld — when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep daily commerce moving. Ehrenfriedersdorf's tin-mining history stretches back to the medieval period, and by 1921 the town's industrial decline made the administrative effort behind even modest Notgeld issues a meaningful gesture of local economic management.
Series from small Erzgebirge communities in this period were often printed in short runs and collected rather than spent, which complicates any honest assessment of genuine circulation wear.