50 Pfennig, Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen, 1921 (the antiquities collection)
Jubiläums-Gutschein, Ländliche Spar- u. Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen u. Umgegend
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00580
- Series year
- 1921
- Actually issued
- 1921
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- UNC (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
- Estimated value
- $10 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-09.
- Dimensions
- 80.9 × 66.4 mm (±0.6, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldSerienscheinThuringiaCooperativeJubileeArchaeologyWeimar Republic
The type
- Type
- 50 Pfennig, Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen, 1921 (the antiquities collection)
- Printer
- Druck: Adolf Forker, Leipzig
- Rarity
- common
Inscriptions
Jubiläums-Gutschein. Ländliche Spar- u. Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen u. Umgegend. 20.3.1896 – 20.3.1921. Gültig bis 1.12.1921.
Jubilee voucher. Rural savings and loan bank of Oberheldrungen and district. 20 March 1896 – 20 March 1921. Valid until 1 December 1921.
Symbology
- The jubilee front (monogram and dates)
- Shared by all six notes: the cooperative's monogram and the anniversary span 1896–1921. The emergency note is also a twenty-fifth-birthday souvenir for a village credit union.
- Bronze-Age finds from the Gräser collection
- An urn and prehistoric bronzes from a local antiquities collection, set against the real archaeological wealth of the Kyffhäuser–Hainleite ridge: the village putting its deep past on its money.
What was happening
Oberheldrungen is a village by the Kyffhäuser in what is now northern Thuringia; in 1921 it lay in the Prussian Province of Saxony. Its rural savings-and-loan cooperative — the Ländliche Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen und Umgegend, a Raiffeisen-type credit union founded on 20 March 1896 — marked its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1921 with a set of six 50-Pfennig Jubiläums-Gutscheine, emergency notes that doubled as a keepsake of the jubilee.
Every note shares the same ornate Jugendstil front: the cooperative's monogram, three oval signature stamps (the middle one reading Gültig bis 1.12.1921), the anniversary dates 20.3.1896–20.3.1921, and the printer's line "Druck: Adolf Forker, Leipzig". The value, 50 Pfennig, is carried in the border rather than as a large central numeral. The six reverses each show a local scene or figure with a verse in the Thuringian dialect.
This note's reverse shows finds "from the Gräser collection of pre- and early-historical antiquities at Oberheldrungen" — a large decorated urn surrounded by Bronze-Age swords, spearheads, sickles, spiral ornaments and brooches. The Kyffhäuser and Hainleite country is genuinely rich in prehistoric graves, and this antiquarian collection appears to be the achievement that lies behind the village's one nationally-known name, the Adolf Gräser honoured on another note in the set.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 50 Pfennig, Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen, 1921 (the antiquities collection) in the collection.
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