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 | Municipality of Friedrichsbrunn |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| 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 | The obverse is printed in black and gold on cream paper, with an ornate baroque scrollwork border enclosing the entire design. At centre top, a large circular medallion in black carries the denomination '50 PF' in bold Gothic lettering, flanked by two allegorical vignettes — a cornucopia with coins at left and a scales of justice at right. Below, the text 'Notgeld des Luftkurortes Friedrichsbrunn i. Harz gegründet von Friedrich dem Großen' is set in decorative blackletter script, followed by validity and date clauses, a manuscript signature, and a quotation attributed to Friedrich der Große in smaller Gothic type; the printer's imprint 'H. MEYERDING QUEDLINBURG' appears at the bottom margin. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 50 PF Notgeld des Luftkurortes Friedrichsbrunn i. Harz gegründet von Friedrich dem Großen Dieser Schein verliert 1 Monat nach Aufruf seine Gültigkeit. Friedrichsbrunn d. 15 October 1921 Ich habe mich entschlossen niemals in den Lauf des gerichtlichen Verfahrens einzugreifen; denn in den Gerichtshöfen sollen die Gesetze sprechen und der Herrscher soll schweigen. H. MEYERDING QUEDLINBURG |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Friedrichsbrunn is a small spa village in the Harz region, better known in Weimar-era Germany as a retreat for the urban middle class than as a monetary authority. Like hundreds of German municipalities caught between the collapse of imperial coinage and the hyperinflationary chaos still gathering force in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — to keep local commerce moving when official coin had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and melting.
H. Meyerding of Quedlinburg was a regional job printer with no specialist banknote background, typical of the firms municipalities turned to when the major security printers were overwhelmed with national commissions.