50 Pfennig, Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen, 1921 (the cherries)
Jubiläums-Gutschein, Ländliche Spar- u. Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen u. Umgegend
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00583
- 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
- 79.8 × 66.1 mm (±1.1, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldSerienscheinThuringiaCooperativeJubileeFolk customWeimar Republic
The type
- Type
- 50 Pfennig, Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen, 1921 (the cherries)
- 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.
- The cherry harvest (Kärschen)
- Children dancing within a ring of ripe cherries: the village's celebrated fruit, named in dialect, closing the set on a note of plenty rather than history.
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 celebrates the Oberheldrungen cherries — Kärschen in the dialect: a ring of children dancing among the trees inside a border of ripe red cherries, under the verse Olles Volk is wie de Kärschen, nach dn Owerhälrunger Kärschen ("everyone is wild for the Oberheldrungen cherries"). The village sits in fruit-growing country below the Kyffhäuser, and its cherry harvest is the subject the set ends on.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 50 Pfennig, Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen, 1921 (the cherries) in the collection.
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