State: Weimar Republic, Solnhofen (municipality)
Issuer: Magistrate
Location of issue: Solnhofen, Germany
Date of issue: 1.July 1921 AD.,
Value: 20 Pfennig
Dimensions: 76 x 48 mm
Material: paper
Watermark: no (?) (Ovalmuster ?)
Serial (letters) : no
Serial no. : 779 front right below, without star.
Signature: (1)
Printer: Louis Koch, Halberstadt
Obv.: 20/Pfennig – Erfinder d. - Aloys/Senefelder – Lithographie – 20/Pfennig / Dieser Schein/ wird …. / Solnhofen – 779 / LOUIS KOCH, HALBERSTADT. , statue of Aloys Senefelder at center, printer´s label left below.
Rev.: 20 – Bodenplatten-Industrie - 20 / Solnhofen , depiction of a circular floor plate design, lithography workers in diamond shapes frames and value flanking.
References: Grabowski/Mehl 1236.1a-2/4 .
Set Details 1x10pf, 1x20pf, 1x50pf, 1x1 mark.
1236.1a) SN on front at right bottom.
1236.1b) SN on front at middle bottom.
1236.1c) SN on back
Set/Series Name Solnhofen Gemeinde 1a
Solnhofen is a municipality in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in the region of Middle Franconia in the Land of Bavaria in Germany. It lies within the Altmühl Valley.
The local area is famous in geology and palaeontology for Solnhofen limestone. This is a very fine-grained limestone from the Jurassic period which is an exceptionally fine Lagerstätte that preserves detailed fossil specimens. Alois Senefelder used specially prepared blocks of the fine Solnhofen limestone for the process of lithography which he invented in 1798. The quarrying of this lithographic limestone subsequently yielded spectacular finds, including Archaeopteryx, commemorated in the bird's full name Archaeopteryx lithographica. All 13 known specimens have come from the Solnhofen area. Solnhofen was known as "Husen" in the 8th century. In 750/51 Saint Solus created a church there. On this church, the grave church of him (Sola-Basilika) was built later. In honor of him Husen was renamed in "Solnhofen".
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