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50 Pfennig Industry Series - Porzellanindustrie
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Großbreitenbach |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in deep red and dark green on a buff paper ground. Large Gothic Fraktur lettering at top reads the issuer name, with the denomination numeral '50' and abbreviation 'Pf' rendered in bold red display script flanking a central heraldic shield vignette enclosed in a laurel wreath. Below, a panoramic landscape vignette in dark ink presents a bird's-eye townscape of Großbreitenbach set among rolling Thuringian hills. A two-line validity clause in Gothic script runs along the lower margin, with manuscript signatures of the Magistrat and Gemeinderat below. |
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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 notgeld series was built around the town's identity as a center of Thuringian porcelain manufacture — an industry that had sustained the area since the mid-eighteenth century. Each denomination in the Industry Series was assigned a different trade subject, and the Porzellanindustrie note was the obvious anchor piece for a town whose economy depended heavily on kiln work and decorative ware production.
Carl O. Heyder in Gehren was a regional printer responsible for a considerable volume of Thuringian notgeld, and P. Neu's design credit appears across several pieces in this run. The 1921 date places it in the second wave of municipal emergency currency, issued well after the initial 1919–1920 flood — by this point municipalities had become considerably more deliberate about presentation, treating the notes partly as collectibles from the outset.