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| Issuer | Stadt Freyburg an der Unstrut (City of Freyburg an der Unstrut) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Freyburg an der Unstrut Freiung: 1. Aug. 1921 Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit vom Kleine gedruckt von Otto Richters & Co. Erfurt mit der Schere geschnitten von Walter Liege Naumburg |
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| Reverse lettering | Innen zweiten bei der Neuen Burg Friedrich Ludwig Heer mit mit Pend am 2. führen zu kommen Land's Wege sie mit kommend Vom Buelacher its die Hase |
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Freyburg an der Unstrut is best known for the Rotkäppchen Sekt winery, established there in 1856, and the town's notgeld issues from the 1921 inflation period lean hard into that local identity. This 50 Pfennig piece is one of several denominations printed by Otto Richters & Co. in Erfurt as Germany's postwar coin shortage forced hundreds of small municipalities to commission their own emergency currency.
Richters was a competent regional printer, not one of the prestige houses, which shows in the production values of the Freyburg series relative to the more elaborately engraved notgeld coming out of Berlin or Leipzig at the same time.