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50 Pfennig Industry Series - Geigen-, Kleinkunst-, Spielwaren-Industrie
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Großbreitenbach (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries large red Gothic lettering with the town name 'Großbreitenbach i. Th.' and the denomination '50 Pf' flanking a central coat of arms — a wild man holding tools rendered in dark green and ochre — enclosed within a stylised foliate wreath. Below, a broad panoramic vignette in brown and green tones presents a bird's-eye townscape of Großbreitenbach set against rolling Thuringian hills. The lower margin bears two lines of Gothic script with the validity notice and facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and Gemeinderat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Großbreitenbach i. Th. 50 Pf Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrates zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Der Magistrat Der Gemeinderat |
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Großbreitenbach sits in the Thuringian Forest, where by the early twentieth century the toy and musical instrument trades had become the dominant local industries — the Geigen- and Spielwaren-Industrie references are not decorative choices but a direct acknowledgment of what kept the town employed. The 1921 date places this squarely in the Weimar inflationary emergency, when small municipalities across Germany issued their own Kleingeld substitutes because coin simply vanished from circulation.
Carl O. Heyder of nearby Gehren was a regional printer who handled numerous Thuringian notgeld commissions during this period. P. Neu's designer credit is unusual — most small-town notgeld went uncredited.