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50 Pfennig Deutscher Reichskriegerbund Kyffhäuser
| Issuer | Deutscher Reichskriegerbund Kyffhäuser |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress floral and berry vine border frames the note; red Fraktur script titles read GUTSCHEIN / des Deutschen Reichskriegerbundes / "Kyffhäuser" across the upper half. Denomination numerals "50 Pfg" appear in red within circular guilloche cartouches at lower left and right. Centre text box states validity conditions, dated Berlin W50, 29.XI.21, Griesberg Str. 2, with manuscript signature above the printed legend GENERALOBERST PRÄSIDENT. |
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| Reverse description | Green oak-leaf and acorn border panels flank a large central vignette printed in dark blue and ochre, showing an aerial view of the Kyffhäuser Monument atop its wooded hill with the ruined Kyffhäusen castle in the background. Denomination "50 Pfg" in dark blue appears in plain cartouches at left and right margins. |
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The Deutscher Reichskriegerbund Kyffhäuser was a veterans' organization founded in 1900 to unite Germany's regimental associations under one nationalist umbrella — by the Weimar years it had millions of members and considerable political weight. This 50 Pfennig note belongs to the vast category of Notgeld issued during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s, when municipalities, businesses, and private organizations alike printed their own emergency small change to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation.
That a paramilitary veterans' league was issuing its own currency says something pointed about how thoroughly state monetary infrastructure had broken down by 1921.