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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schierke, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 80 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | The central field carries a Harz mountain landscape vignette executed in fine letterpress, with a medallion portrait of Goethe set within a wreath at centre and two figures evoking Faust and Mephistopheles standing among fir trees to the right. Quotation panels drawn from Goethe's Faust, Part I — referencing the Walpurgis Night scene in the Harz — occupy the upper left and right portions of the face. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfg.' is inscribed in bold Gothic script along the lower margin, accompanied by the issuing authority, the date '30. Mai 1921', a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher, a red serial number at lower left, and the printer's imprint 'LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT.' |
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| Obverse lettering | Goethe's Faust I. Teil. Walpurgisnacht. Harzgebirge. Gegend von Schier- ke u. Elend- Mephisto- Verlangst Du nicht- Goethe Fünfzig Pfg. Dieser Schein wird jederzeit bei der Gemeindekasse eingelöst. Schierke-Oberharz, 30. Mai 1921 Der Gemeindevorsteher Ungültig 3 Monate nach Aufruf in der Wernigeröder Zeitung. |
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Schierke is a small resort village in the Harz Mountains, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued the Weimar Republic's early years. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous Harz-area communities during this period, which means the production quality is competent but unexceptional.
Schierke's issues are collected primarily as a regional set rather than for any particular rarity. The village's relative isolation kept circulation tight and returns to the issuing authority reasonably complete.