Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pfennigs Spielvereinigung Jena 08
| Issuer | Spielvereinigung Jena 08 e.V. |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a bronze footballer trophy statue on a pedestal, encircled by a large green oak-leaf wreath tied with a ribbon at the base; denomination numerals '50' appear in upper corners. Inscription below identifies the award as the 'Großer Leuchtenburg-Wanderpreis', noting the sculptor Rudolf Weinberger and the 1921 tournament winner. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Großer Leuchtenburg-Wanderpreis gegeben von der Porzellan-Fabrik A.-G. Kahla G.-A. für die Sonderklasse des Mitteldeutschen Sechser-Turniers Kahla G.-A. Sieger 1921: 1. Sportverein Jena E.V., Liga. Bronze-Statue von Bildhauer Rudolf Weinberger. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Spielvereinigung Jena 08 was a sports club, not a bank or municipal authority — yet like hundreds of German civic organizations during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s, it issued Notgeld to fill the vacuum left by a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Reichsbank simply could not keep fractional currency in circulation fast enough; coins were hoarded or melted the moment their metal value exceeded their face value.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a prolific Notgeld printer of the period, supplying dozens of issuers across Bavaria and beyond. Their output was competent commercial work produced at volume.