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50 Pfennig Kyffhäuser Series
| Issuer | Stadt Frankenhausen (Bad Frankenhausen), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg. / Germanisches Opferfest auf dem Kyffhäuser / 50 Pfg. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bad Frankenhausen's Kyffhäuser series was issued in the thick of the Weimar notgeld boom, when virtually every German municipality with a printing contact was pushing decorative small-change notes onto a collector market hungry for regional imagery. Hermann Germeyer of Berlin was a mid-tier commercial printer who handled several Thuringian notgeld commissions during this period — competent work, not prestige engraving.
The watermarked paper is the one detail worth pausing on. Most notgeld of this scale skipped security paper entirely, so its presence here likely reflects either remaining stock from a previous job or a deliberate effort to signal civic seriousness in a denomination nobody was actually forging.