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50 Pfennig Thüringer Trachten- und Heimat-Fest
| Issuer | Stadt Erfurt (City of Erfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Das Thüringer Wappen Thüringer Leut Dem Reiche treu 50 50 Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfg. Thüringer Trachten- und Heimat-Fest am 26. Juni 1921. in Erfurt. Dieser Gutschein wird am 26. Juni 1921 bei allen Veranstaltungen und in allen Lokalen Erfurts oder am 27. Juni 1921 im Büro des Verkehrs-Vereins in Zahlung genommen. |
| Reverse description | A central oval vignette presents a half-length portrait of a woman in traditional Thuringian folk costume, wearing an elaborate lace headdress, a blue jacket, and a green shawl embroidered with red roses over a floral dress. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in large Fraktur numerals at left and right, with a ribbon cartouche above reading 'Trachtenbilder', all set against a dense ground of green fir-branch ornament. A decorative scroll panel at the base carries a two-line rhyming verse in Thuringian dialect. |
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This note belongs to the wave of Notgeld issued by German municipalities during the severe coin shortage that followed World War One, but Erfurt's 1921 Trachten- und Heimat-Fest series was explicitly a collector piece, not emergency currency in any practical sense. By 1921, the folk-festival Notgeld genre had become a minor industry — towns competed for philatelic sales, using themed series to generate revenue well beyond face value. Erfurt was among the more prolific issuers in Thuringia.
The "Serienschein" market collapsed almost as quickly as it inflated, and most of these notes never touched a cash drawer.