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50 Pfennig Schlesische Lutherfestspiele
| Issuer | Breslau (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Martin Luther in right-facing portrait, framed within a decorative border. Denomination numerals appear in diamond-shaped cartouches to the left and right of the portrait. The title inscription runs along the upper edge in period letterpress typeface. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein 50 Pfennig (Translation: Voucher 50 Pfennig) |
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The Schlesische Lutherfestspiele — the Silesian Luther Festival — was a large-scale religious and cultural pageant held in Breslau in 1921, commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's appearance before the Diet of Worms. The city issued this Notgeld explicitly as a festival souvenir rather than out of any pressing monetary need, a common but commercially shrewd practice among German municipalities during the early 1920s inflation period.
Grass, Barth & Comp., operating under the Friedrich imprint, was a well-established Breslau printing house with a long history of commercial lithography in the city — a local printer for a decidedly local occasion.