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50 Pfennig Sights Series - Kapelle in Altenbreitungen
| Issuer | Altenbreitungen and Frauenbreitungen, Municipalities of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in a coloured letterpress design shows two male workers — a sower with a seed bag and a labourer holding tools — set against a rural landscape with factory smokestacks in the background, flanked on either side by stylised floral and grain stalk borders. A ribbon banner at the top bears the inscription LANDWIRTSCHAFT · TABAKBAU · METALLINDUSTRIE, referencing the region's principal industries. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in bold cartouches at lower left and right, with the issuer name and date in a central text panel reading 'Alten u. Frauenbreitungen den 1. Nov. 1921', accompanied by two facsimile signatures of the Gemeindevorstand and Rechnungsführer. |
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| Obverse lettering | LANDWIRTSCHAFT · TABAKBAU · METALLINDUSTRIE Alten u. Frauenbreitungen den 1. Nov. 1921 Gültig 30 Tage nach Abruf. Der Gemeindevorstand: Der Rechnungsführer: 50 Pf. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig. |
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Altenbreitungen and Frauenbreitungen issued this Notgeld jointly — two small Werra valley communities pooling resources for a single series, which was not uncommon among neighboring parishes in Thuringia during the 1921 small-change shortage. Adolf Forker of Leipzig handled a considerable volume of municipal Notgeld work in this period, supplying dozens of town councils across central Germany with short-run collector-oriented series.
The "Sights Series" designation marks this as deliberate souvenir Notgeld — printed not primarily to fill a currency gap but to generate premium income from collectors, a practice that had become widespread enough by 1921 that the Reichsbank was actively pressuring municipalities to stop issuing it.