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50 Pfennig Kyffhäuser Series
| Issuer | Frankenhausen (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Green and black letterpress vignette of the Kyffhäuser monument statue group, showing Emperor Barbarossa accompanied by an armoured knight bearing a lance, set before the Kyffhäuser castle ruins, signed by the artist K. Braune at lower left of the central panel. The denomination 'Fünfzig' appears at upper left and 'Pfennig' at upper right in Gothic lettering, with a stylised pillar-and-foliage border framing the scene. The pedestal of the monument bears the inscription 'BARBAROSSA AUF DEM KYFFHÄUSER' in block capitals. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig BARBAROSSA AUF DEM KYFFHÄUSER |
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Frankenhausen's 1921 Notgeld series takes its name from the Kyffhäuser monument on the ridge above the town — the massive late-nineteenth-century memorial built over the ruins of an imperial Hohenstaufen palace, where legend holds Frederick Barbarossa sleeps beneath the mountain waiting to return. The choice was locally resonant: Frankenhausen sat directly in the monument's shadow and had been marketing the site to tourists for decades.
Germ. Germeyer of Berlin was a minor but active Notgeld printer during the 1920–1922 issue peak. The watermarked paper on this series is a cut above the cheapest emergency issues of the period — not all municipal Notgeld bothered with any security feature at all. Designer H. L. Braune is credited in the series, which is more attribution than most city-issued Kleingeldersatz received.