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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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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress Notgeld note with an ornamental foliate border framing a central vignette of the Kyffhäuser ruins and the town of Frankenhausen below, signed by three city council officials beneath the text panel. The lower left bears the municipal coat of arms of Frankenhausen, while a shield cartouche at lower right carries the validity inscription; denomination figures '50' and 'Pfg.' appear in the upper corners. |
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| Reverse description | Green and black letterpress note centred on a vignette of the seated Barbarossa statue at the Kyffhäuser Monument, framed by a wreath of oak and ivy with two ravens perched at either side; a lightly printed underprint repeats the monument tower and ruins in the background. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' appears at lower left within a laurel scroll, '50 Pfg. 1921' at lower right, and the words 'Jetzt' and 'Einst' in Gothic lettering at upper left and upper right respectively. |
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The Kyffhäuser series was issued amid the post-WWI inflationary emergency that drove hundreds of German municipalities to print their own Notgeld — local emergency currency that the Reichsbank could no longer supply fast enough. Frankenhausen sits at the foot of the Kyffhäuser ridge, a site carrying deep nationalist freight as the legendary resting place of Friedrich Barbarossa, which explains the series name and the regional pride embedded in the commission.
Garmeyer's Berlin presswork is cleaner than much municipal Notgeld of 1921. The watermarked paper was an unusual investment for a small Thuringian town.