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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schweina (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in multicolour letterpress on a grey ground and is divided into a pictorial left panel and a text field to the right. The left vignette depicts a large oak tree at the base of which two pigs graze; suspended from the trunk by a red cord is the circular red wax seal of the Marktflecken Schweina bearing a standing figure. At upper right a green ribbon banner carries the gothic-script legend 'Notgeld des Marktfleckens Schweina', below which the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennige' appears in large black Fraktur letters with red ornamental flourishes. The date 'Schweina, den 20. September 1921' is followed by two manuscript facsimile signatures above the printed titles 'Der Gemeindevorstand' and 'Der Gemeinderat', with a five-digit serial number to the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Marktfleckens Schweina Fünfzig Pfennige Schweina, den 20. September 1921. Der Gemeindevorstand Der Gemeinderat Dieser Gutschein wird jederzeit von der Gemeindekasse in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach Aufforderung des Gemeindevorstandes zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig |
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Schweina is a small spa village in the Thuringian uplands, best known in the early twentieth century for its saltwater baths and sanatoriums rather than any industrial or commercial weight. That such a minor municipality was issuing its own emergency currency in 1921 is itself the story — the Weimar inflation crisis had so thoroughly disrupted small-denomination coinage that even village councils were contracting local printers to fill the gap.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig was a mid-tier job printer who handled a significant volume of Thuringian Kleingeldscheine during this period, turning around small runs quickly and cheaply. The paper quality on Forker-printed issues tends to be thin, and surviving examples frequently show edge wear from heavy short-term use.