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50 Pfennig Kyffhäuser Series
| Issuer | Frankenhausen (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 95 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfg. Zur Erinnerung an das 25jährige Bestehen des Kyffhäuser-Denkmals Frankenhausen a. Kyffh. d. 19. Juni 1921. Der Stadtrat Stadtratsmitglied II. Bürgermeister Stadtratsmitgl. Frankenhäuser Notgeld Gültig bis 31. Juli 1921 Germ. Germeyer Berlin |
| Reverse description | Black and blue-grey letterpress note with vertical oak-leaf decorative side panels flanking a central rectangular vignette. The vignette presents a dramatic rendition of the Kyffhäuser Monument tower rising against a radiating sunburst sky, with biplanes visible in the background, signed by H.L. Braune at lower left. A caption panel below the vignette bears the inscription 'Huldigung der deutschen Flieger'; denomination numerals '50 Pfg.' appear in Gothic script within the left and right decorative side panels. |
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The Kyffhäuser series was issued during the notgeld boom of 1921, when German municipal authorities were printing local emergency currency faster than the Reichsbank could supply small-denomination notes to meet demand. Frankenhausen's choice to commission a themed series rather than a purely functional scrip reflects the period's peculiar mixture of fiscal crisis and civic pride — many towns treated notgeld as an opportunity for promotion, and series were actively collected, creating a secondary market that encouraged overprinting well beyond genuine circulation needs.
Germeyer in Berlin was a specialist in this trade, handling numerous municipal commissions during the inflation years. H.L. Braune's design credit is unusually specific attribution for notgeld of this period.