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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Municipality of Friedrichsbrunn (Prussian Province of Saxony) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PF Notgeld des Kurkurortes Friedrichsbrunn i. Harz gegründet von Friedrich dem Großen Dieser Schein verliert 1 Monat nach Aufruf seine Gültigkeit Friedrichsbrunn d. 15 October 1921 Ich habe mich entschlossen niemals in den Lauf des gerichtlichen Verfahrens einzugreifen; denn in den Gerichtshöfen sollen die Gesetze sprechen und der Herrscher soll schweigen. Friedr. d. Gr. H. MEYERDING QUEDLINBURG |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-black with salmon-pink accent tones and displays a full-field woodcut-style vignette of the dining circle ('Tafelrunde') at Sanssouci Palace, showing Frederick the Great seated among his guests at a banquet table in an interior setting with tall columns in the background. The denomination numeral '50' appears within a scrollwork cartouche in the upper right corner, while the decorative border consists of foliate and rocaille ornaments. A descriptive caption in Gothic script runs along the lower margin. |
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Friedrichsbrunn was a small spa village in the Harz, better known as a retreat for the urban middle class than as an issuing authority for emergency currency. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the Kleingeldnot of 1920–1921, it authorized its own Notgeld simply because small-denomination Reichsmark coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or rendered worthless by inflation before it had peaked.
H. Meyerding of Quedlinburg was a regional job printer who handled Notgeld commissions for multiple Harz-area communities during this period. These small local print runs are often the most fragile part of the documentary record — low print quantities, handled by tourists as souvenirs as much as by residents as currency.