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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Frankenhausen (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld note printed in black, red, and green on a dark ground, with a central vignette rendered as an expressive paper-cut silhouette of a ruined fortification tower rising against salmon-pink radiating sunburst rays, flanked by vertical Gothic-script text panels within green-bordered rules. The denomination '50 Pfennig' is set in large red Gothic lettering at centre, above a green serial number panel at lower centre. Four manuscript signatures appear below the denomination, and the bottom margin carries the printer's imprint in Gothic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | dieser Schuldschein wächst seiner Gültigkeit mit Ablauf dieses Jahres 1922 Altinaer Notgeld der Stadt Frankenhausen 50 Pfennig brandgebunden heiß im November 1921 die Stadtgemeinde Nr. 05496 Durch Steindruck von den Richters und Co. Erfurt — Bild der Schnee geschnitten von Walter Sigel Hamburg |
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Frankenhausen's 1921 notgeld issue was one of hundreds of municipal emergency currency series produced across Thuringia as small-change shortages hit their peak in the early Weimar years. What distinguishes this particular piece is the Hamburg-based designer Walter Sigel, an unusual geographic disconnect for a commission of this local scale — most towns contracted with printers who handled design in-house.
Richters & Co. in Erfurt were prolific notgeld printers across the region, and the quality of their presswork was generally consistent, if unspectacular.