50 Pfennig Fire Series

Wasungen, a small Thuringian town with a population well under two thousand at the time, issued this note during the acute coin shortage of 1921 — part of the vast flood of municipal Kleingeldersatz that briefly made every German town its own monetary authority. The Fire Series (Brandserie) was a common notgeld thematic choice, often tied to local historical memory; Wasungen itself had suffered significant fire damage in earlier centuries, giving the theme at least some local grounding rather than pure decoration.

Franz Scheiner in Würzburg printed a considerable volume of Thuringian notgeld during this period, producing short runs for small municipalities that could never have sustained a long print relationship with the major security printers.