50 Pfennig, Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen, 1921 (the cherries)

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.