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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Friedrichsbrunn (Municipality of Friedrichsbrunn, Prussian Province of Saxony) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic winter landscape vignette in blue and ochre tones, showing the villa quarter and sanatorium buildings of Friedrichsbrunn set against snow-covered hills and a forested mountain backdrop, rendered in a detailed line-engraved style. At the lower margin, a horizontal panel in ochre bears the denomination '50 Pf.' in bold Gothic numerals at both left and right corners, with the central legend 'Luftkurort Friedrichsbrunn i/H.' in Gothic script between them. The caption 'Villenviertel u. Sanatorium Friedrichsbrunn' is inscribed in small type at the upper left of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Villenviertel u. Sanatorium Friedrichsbrunn 50 Pf. Luftkurort Friedrichsbrunn i/H. 50 Pf. |
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Friedrichsbrunn is a small spa village in the Harz mountains, and its 1921 notgeld issue is firmly in the decorative collector-oriented wave that swept German municipalities that year — produced not out of genuine coin shortage but to generate revenue from philatelists and notgeld collectors who had turned local scrip into a minor national craze. The municipality would have contracted a commercial printer, likely one of the Leipzig or Berlin firms that handled hundreds of such commissions simultaneously.
Worth noting: Kaiser Wilhelm II had a summer residence in Friedrichsbrunn, which gave the village an outsized cultural profile relative to its population.