Currency, paper. 50 Pfennig, in green, red, orange, blue and black on white background. Dated 1 October, 1921. L 9.5 cm x W 7.0 cm. A) Serial # 122142, with scenes of towers on back. B) # 146147, with river barge scene on back. C) # 172951, with scene of beaver building dam, on back. D) 157642, with scene of boys swimming at edge of lake, on back. Native name and meaning: Notgeld (Emergency currency).
Donor:
George Leitmann and Nancy Leitmann
Collection place:
Aken (Elbe), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe, Austria, Aken/Elbe
Production place:
Aken (Elbe), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Culture or time period:
German
Collector:
Josef Leitmann
Collection date:
early 1930s
Materials:
Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Notgelden
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)