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50 Pfennig Deutscher Reichskriegerbund Kyffhäuser
| Issuer | Deutscher Reichskriegerbund Kyffhäuser, Berlin |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE F Gutschein des Deutschen Reichskriegerbundes "Kyffhäuser" 50 Pfg Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgten Aufruf in der Kriegerzeitung. Berlin W50, den 29.XI.21 Grünebergstr. 2 GENERALOBERST PRÄSIDENT |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue and green on cream paper, the reverse centres on a large vignette of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa seated within a stone arched recess, rendered in a detailed intaglio-style print evoking the Kyffhäuser legend. Flanking the central image on both sides are tall decorative pillars entwined with green oak-leaf garlands, each bearing crossed swords. The denomination '50 Pfg' appears at the base of the central vignette within a green laurel wreath roundel. |
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The Kyffhäuserbund was one of Germany's largest veterans' organizations, drawing membership from the imperial wars of 1866, 1870–71, and 1914–18. This 50 Pfennig note was issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when municipal bodies, private firms, and associations of every kind were legally permitted to issue Notgeld to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. A veterans' fraternity issuing emergency currency was unusual but not unprecedented in that period.
The Kyffhäuser monument in Thuringia — central to the organization's identity — gave the Bund its name and its nationalist mythology, rooted in the Barbarossa legend.