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50 Pfennig Schlesische Lutherfestspiele

Issuer Stadt Breslau (City of Breslau)
Year 1921
Type Local banknote
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Obverse lettering Schlesische Lutherfestspiele
BRESLAU + JAHRHUNDERTHALLE + JUNI 1921 + WERT D. SCHEINES
50 Pf. I. BEREICH D. FESTSPIELE + EINLÖSBAR A. D. KASSE B. Z. 15. JUL! 1921.
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Reverse lettering Eine feste Burg
ist unser Gott'
50 PF
GRASS BARTH & COMP. W. FRIEDRICH BRESLAU 1
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Issued to mark the Schlesische Lutherfestspiele — a Silesian Luther festival staged in Breslau in 1921 — this Notgeld piece belongs to a category of commemorative emergency currency that German municipalities used extensively in the early 1920s, as much for local promotion and collector revenue as for genuine transactional need. Grass, Barth & Comp., operating under the W. Friedrich imprint, was a well-established Breslau printing house with deep roots in the city's commercial publishing trade.

The series reference DeNG 1/2#186.1-1/5 indicates five distinct vignette varieties were issued under this single denomination.

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