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50 Pfennig Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte
| Issuer | Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte e.V., Leer |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Hartung & Co., Hamburg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels on a tan ground with red and black letterpress printing. The left panel carries Low German text in bold gothic script indicating use at the Heimat games in October 1921, with the date '1921' at the foot. The central panel presents a full-length vignette of an East Frisian noblewoman in elaborate 16th-century costume — a richly ornamented red and gold gown — identified by flanking captions as a weaving woman from Leer, circa 1500. The right panel bears the issuing authority inscription 'Ausgeven för de Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte e.V., Leer Ostfriesland' alongside a large decorative denomination numeral '50', with the printer's imprint 'Hartung & Co., Hamburg' and the designer credit 'Arthur Götting — Pretz' at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set on the same tan ground with bold red and black letterpress printing. A central rectangular vignette rendered in colour presents the historic Waage building of Leer — a distinctive Dutch-influenced red-brick weigh-house with a stepped gable and tower — set against a harbour backdrop with rigging visible to the left, signed 'WAAGE' and 'A. Götting' below. Flanking the vignette on both sides are large repeating 'Pf.' abbreviations and bold '50' numerals in red. A Low Frisian proverb runs across the top in gothic script, with a matching legend along the lower border; a decorative ribbon scroll inscribed 'EALA FRVA FRESENA' arches above the vignette. |
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Leer, in East Frisia, was among hundreds of German municipalities and associations that issued their own small-denomination Notgeld during the early 1920s when coin shortages made everyday transactions difficult. This particular note was produced by the Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte — a regional cultural preservation society — making it unusual in that the issuer was neither a town council nor a commercial firm but a civic association with explicitly antiquarian interests. Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled the printing, with design credited to Arthur Götting.
The DeNG reference indicates two design variants (0782.1-2/6), suggesting the series was issued in a small run intended partly for collectors from the outset — a common but not universal practice among Notgeld issuers of this period.