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50 Pfennig Humboldt Series - Issue 4
| Issuer | Municipality of Schwarzburg, Thuringia |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue, black, and yellow on a light blue ground. A large double-headed eagle vignette, rendered in a bold Jugendstil woodcut style, occupies the central field, with decorative sword motifs in the left and right lateral panels set against geometric foliate underprint. The denomination numeral '50' appears in yellow at lower left and lower right, with Gothic-script inscriptions below the eagle recording the place and date of issue and the authorising body. |
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| Reverse lettering | 4/ aber vor allem Euch des Schlosses heilige Hallen, alten Fürstengeschlechtes nimmer entweiheten Sitz. W. v. Humboldt. 50 Pfennig Druck: Eduard Giltsch - Jena. |
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Schwarzburg was a tiny principality-turned-administrative-district in the Thuringian highlands, and its 1922 Notgeld issues reflect the period when virtually every German municipality with a printing contact was producing emergency small change to compensate for the collapse of coin circulation. Eduard Giltsch in Jena was a well-regarded regional lithographer with a history of quality work, which is why several Thuringian communities turned to him during the Notgeld peak years.
The Humboldt designation places this within a thematic series — a common Notgeld marketing strategy that encouraged collectors to chase complete sets, deliberately blurring the line between circulating scrip and souvenir production.