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50 Pfennig Sights Series - Kirche in Frauenbreitungen
| Issuer | Altenbreitungen and Frauenbreitungen, Municipalities of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette portrays two male workers — a sower on the left and a labourer on the right — set against a rural landscape with industrial factory chimneys in the background, rendered in a coloured lithographic style. Flanking the scene on both sides are stylised stalks of grain and flowering plants forming a decorative border. A banner across the upper portion reads 'LANDWIRTSCHAFT · TABAKBAU · METALLINDUSTRIE', while the denomination '50 Pf.' appears in bold in the lower left and right corners; the lower central panel bears the issuing authority, date '1. Nov. 1921', validity clause, and facsimile signatures of the Gemeindevorstand and Rechnungsführer. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a colour lithographic view of the church at Frauenbreitungen, with its distinctive tower, surrounded by trees and a stone enclosure wall. The denomination '50 Pf.' is printed in large outlined numerals in the flanking yellow panels to the left and right of the vignette. The word 'NOTGELD' and the year '1921' appear in the upper corners, while a four-line verse in German script occupies the lower panel, all within a multi-rule rectangular border with decorative corner devices. |
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Frauenbreitungen is a small village in Thuringia, and this 1921 notgeld piece belongs to the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany following the postwar coin shortage. The joint issue by Altenbreitungen and Frauenbreitungen is itself mildly unusual — neighboring communes pooling resources for a single notgeld series was not unheard of, but it does hint at the administrative proximity of these two settlements along the Werra valley.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig handled a significant volume of provincial notgeld printing during this period, producing runs for numerous small Thuringian municipalities. The DeNG catalogue reference 18.1 (3) places this within a numbered sights series, meaning the issue was deliberately designed as a collectible set — by 1921, many municipalities had recognized that collectors, not commerce, were the real market for this paper.