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50 Pfennig Industry Series - Glasindustrie
| Issuer | Großbreitenbach (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries the issuer's name in large red Fraktur script on a cream ground, flanked by the large denominal numerals '50' at left and 'Pf' abbreviation at right. At centre, the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing a semi-nude male figure holding glassblowing tools, enclosed within a laurel wreath — forms the principal vignette. The lower half is occupied by a panoramic letterpress townscape of Großbreitenbach set against rolling Thuringian hills. A two-line validity clause in Gothic script runs along the bottom margin, followed by two manuscript signatures for the Magistrat and the 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's 50 Pfennig Notgeld from 1921 belongs to the so-called Industry Series — a coordinated set of notes issued by several Thuringian towns to document regional trades at a moment when the inflationary spiral was making low-denomination Reichsmark coinage effectively disappear from circulation. The Glasindustrie designation is historically apt: the forested highlands around Großbreitenbach had supported glassmaking for centuries, and the town's identity was genuinely bound to it.
Carl O. Heyder of Gehren was a small regional printer responsible for much of the Notgeld production from this corner of Thuringia. Designer Paul Neu's involvement gave the series a degree of graphic consistency unusual for emergency municipal issues of this period.