50 Pfennig, Stadt Freiburg in Schlesien, 1921 (castle entrance)

Notgeld der Stadt Freiburg i. Schles.

Reverse of 50 Pfennig, Stadt Freiburg in Schlesien, 1921 (castle entrance) — Reverse 600 dpi

This copy

Accession: OM-00829
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 2026-10-24.
Dimensions: 94.7 × 66.9 mm (±0.6, from the scan)
Themes: Notgeld Serienschein Weimar Republic Silesia Castles

The type

Type: 50 Pfennig, Stadt Freiburg in Schlesien, 1921 (castle entrance)
Printer: Grube & Schneider, Freiburg i. Schl.
Rarity: common

Symbology

Eingang alte Burg: The gateway of the old castle near the town, part of the set's run of castle and landscape views.
Den allersonnigsten Sonnenschein: "The very sunniest sunshine", the cheerful motto printed with the castle-entrance scene.

What was happening

By 1921 Notgeld had turned from wartime necessity into a collectors' market. Towns, firms and clubs commissioned lithographed Serienscheine - sets printed far beyond local need and illustrated with whatever a place was proud of.

Freiburg in Schlesien - today Świebodzice in south-western Poland - is a small Lower Silesian cloth and weaving town below the wooded heights of Schloss Fürstenstein (Książ), the great castle of the Hochberg family. The town's 50-Pfennig notes share a common front showing the two-towered town skyline with Stadt Freiburg i. Schles. / Fünfzig Pfennig / Der Magistrat; each back carries a different scene and a motto. The set was printed by Grube & Schneider of Freiburg in September 1921, and its sister notes are [[notgeld-freiburg-schlesien-50-pfennig-fuerstenstein]], [[notgeld-freiburg-schlesien-50-pfennig-burghof]] and [[notgeld-freiburg-schlesien-50-pfennig-tal]].

The back of this note shows a castle entrance captioned Eingang alte Burg ("entrance of the old castle") under the motto Den allersonnigsten Sonnenschein ("the very sunniest sunshine"), one of a sequence of mottoes that run across the four 50-Pfennig backs.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 50 Pfennig, Stadt Freiburg in Schlesien, 1921 (castle entrance) in the collection.

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