Weimar Germany, Schleiz, 50 Pfennigs, Porcelain Notgeld

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Germany, Weimar Republic
• Authority: Schleiz
• Date: 1922
• Denomination: 50 Pfennigs (porcelain)
• Mint: Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur, Meissen, Germany
• Size: 20mm, 2g
• Obverse: STADT 1922 50 PF SCHLEIZ - Pearl rim, city name above and below Schleizen bull in square with date above Meissen crossed swords below and dividing denomination.
• Reverse: JOHANN FRIEDRICH BÖTTGER * 5. 2. 16 85 - Pearl rim, name surrounding left facing image of Johann Friedrich Böttger in solid line diamond. Alchemical symbols of Sun (Gold) above and Earth below.
• Notes: Porcelain “notgeld” (German for “emergency money”) was a special currency issued in Germany and Austria to deal with the economic crisis and hyperinflation caused by World War I. Unlike official currency, these coins weren’t issued by the central bank but by local municipalities, private companies, state-owned firms, and town savings banks. As a result, they weren’t legal tender but were accepted within local communities by mutual agreement. Porcelain notgeld served as a substitute for real silver and gold coins in the postwar period, but their fragility and the Reichsbank’s refusal to recognize unofficial currencies led to their decline by 1922.

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