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50 Pfennig Humboldt Series - Issue 3
| Issuer | Schwarzburg (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large central vignette of a stylised double-headed eagle in black on a blue ground, flanked by narrow lateral panels each bearing an ornamental sword with yellow highlights in an Art Nouveau geometric framework. A yellow header band across the top carries the issuer legend in Gothic script, while the lower register bears the denomination numerals '50' in yellow at each corner, the validity date, place and issue date in Gothic lettering, and a manuscript signature above the legend 'Der Gemeindevorstand'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld von Schwarzburg im Thür. Wald Gültig bis 31. August 1922 Schwarzburg 1. März 1922 Der Gemeindevorstand 50 |
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The Humboldt Series is one of the more coherent Notgeld sets to come out of Schwarzburg in the early 1920s inflation period — unusual in that a small Thuringian municipality commissioned Eduard Giltsch, a Jena printing house with serious art-reproduction credentials, rather than defaulting to one of the mass-market Notgeld printers churning out tourist-oriented issues at the time.
Giltsch had built its reputation on high-quality chromolithographic work, which shows in the series' registration and color fidelity. By Issue 3 of 1922, Germany's inflation was accelerating rapidly enough that the practical lifespan of any 50 Pfennig note was measured in weeks.