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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenwalde (Spree) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Wer weiß, ob wir uns wiedersehn Am grünen Strand der Spree Gutschein der Stadt Fürstenwalde Spree 20 Pfg. Diesen Gutschein wird an allen Städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er vertiert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Der Magistrat: 1921 DRUCK: J.A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG i/ALLGÄU |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into a wide central pictorial field and two narrow lateral borders. The central dark-ground vignette, executed in a bold expressionist woodcut manner, presents a scene of early Germanic settlement dated '1250': figures in period dress are shown clearing land and ploughing with an ox, set against a wooded landscape with a pale oval sky. Below the vignette, in white Gothic lettering on the dark surround, runs the caption 'Beginn der Kultur durch deutsche Kolonisten.' The left and right borders carry the denomination 'Zwanzig Pfennig' in large red Gothic script, each flanked by stylised autumn oak-leaf ornaments in ochre and red. |
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Fürstenwalde an der Spree, a Brandenburg town with a medieval cathedral chapter and later a significant rubber and cable manufacturing base, issued this Notgeld during the chronic small-change famine that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years. The printing was handled not by a local firm but by J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu — a Bavarian printer who supplied emergency currency to dozens of municipalities simultaneously, which accounts for the occasionally generic layout found across his client towns' issues.
The DeNG reference 0403.1a-1/15 indicates this falls within the first type group for the series, with variant 15 distinguished by minute typographic or color differences cataloged by German Notgeld specialists.