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50 Pfennig Sights Series - Bauernhof in Frauenbreitungen
| Issuer | Municipalities of Altenbreitungen and Frauenbreitungen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette illustrates two male workers — a farmer sowing seeds at left and a metal worker at right — set against an open landscape with industrial chimneys in the background, rendered in a coloured lithographic style. Flanking the scene are decorative stalks of grain and flowering plants. A ribbon banner at the top bears the legend LANDWIRTSCHAFT · TABAKBAU · METALLINDUSTRIE, while the lower panel carries the issuer name, date, validity clause, and manuscript signatures of the Gemeindevorstand and Rechnungsführer, with denomination cartouches of 50 Pf. in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Central rectangular vignette presents a colour lithographic view of a traditional half-timbered farmstead (Bauernhof) in Frauenbreitungen, with a gated entrance, outbuildings, and a cloudy sky above. A scroll banner above the vignette bears the legend BAUERNHOF in FRAUENBREITUNGEN, flanked by the word NOTGELD and the year 1921 in the upper corners. Denomination panels of 50 Pf. appear at left and right, and a lower yellow panel carries a four-line verse in Gothic script. |
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Frauenbreitungen is a village on the Werra in Thuringia, and by 1921 it was issuing its own emergency currency alongside neighboring Altenbreitungen — a joint municipal arrangement that was unusual even by the loose standards of Weimar-era Notgeld administration. Adolf Forker in Leipzig handled a large volume of sights-series Notgeld for small Saxon and Thuringian communities during this period, producing runs that were as much philatelic product as functional currency.
The series designation DeNG 1/2#18.1 (2) places this among the documented collector issues — printed in quantities intended partly for the souvenir trade that had grown up around the Notgeld boom.