Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Frose, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 89 × 55 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Überschwemmungsgebiet zwischen Gätersleben - Frose - Aschersleben 1479 legte Bischof Gebhard v. Halberstadt durch Stauung der Bode den 30 qkm großen See an 50 Pfg |
| Signature(s) | Henke |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Frose is a small village in the Harz foothills of Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly obscure German municipalities in 1921, it issued emergency Kleingeld to plug the chronic small-denomination coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding. This note belongs to the broader Notgeld phenomenon — not the hyperinflation emergency of 1922–23, but the earlier, calmer phase when local authorities were still printing collectible series for philatelic sale as much as genuine circulation.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer handling Notgeld contracts for several small Harz-area communities during this period. The designer credit to W. Dockhorn is uncommon enough to suggest a local commission rather than a stock design.