Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
50 Pfennig
| Uitgever | Stadt Bad Berka (City of Bad Berka) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1917 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse is printed in grey-black on cream paper in a letterpress style typical of German Notgeld issues. At the top, a bold Fraktur script title reads "Kriegsgeld der Stadt Bad Berka" above a central vignette consisting of a circular medallion set within an Iron Cross motif, with radiating sun-burst lines; the medallion contains a palm tree over a landscape with ruins, and bears the year "1914" below it. The denomination "50 Pfennig" appears in large bold type to the left and right of the central design, with the issuing authority line "Der Stadtgemeindevorstand" and a manuscript signature below, flanked by the split date "19" and "17" at the lower corners. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Kriegsgeld der Stadt Bad Berka. 50 Pfennig 1914 Der Stadtgemeindevorstand. 19 17 REINECK & KLEIN WEIMAR |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
Bad Berka's 1917 Notgeld issue belongs to the earliest wave of municipal emergency currency in Germany, when the Imperial government's failure to keep small-denomination coins in circulation forced thousands of towns to print their own stopgap notes. The coin shortage was largely a consequence of silver and copper being diverted to war production — pfennig coinage effectively vanished from daily commerce by mid-1917.
Reineck & Klein were a Weimar commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is why the embossed stamp served as the primary authentication device — it was the most practical deterrent available to a small municipality without access to proper intaglio equipment.