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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bürgel (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Alfred Eisenach, Bürgel, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey letterpress note with a geometric guilloche underprint covering the entire field. At centre, an oval vignette presents a traditional Bürgel stoneware tea service — teapot, sugar bowl, creamer, cup and saucer — rendered in fine detail against a plain ground. The denomination '10 Pf' appears in bold Fraktur script at upper left and upper right, flanked by validity clauses in smaller Fraktur text. Below the vignette, the issuing authority 'Bürgel i/Th., Der Stadtgemeindevorstand' is inscribed alongside a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister and the date '28. Mai 1921'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Bürgel über 10 Pfennig i. Thüringen. 10 Pfennig ST. GEORGIUS EQUITUM PATRONUS Max Eisenach. BARMEN. Lichtdruck Alfred Eisenach, Bürgel. |
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Bürgel is a small Thuringian town long associated with its distinctive brown-glazed pottery, and the local Notgeld series reflects exactly that kind of municipal self-promotion — these emergency issues were as much collectible souvenirs as functional small change during the coin shortages of the early Weimar years. By 1921, German towns had discovered that well-designed Notgeld sold to collectors nationwide, generating revenue beyond face value.
Alfred Eisenach printed this in-house, with design credited to Max Eisenach of Barmen — the shared surname suggests a family connection, though the Barmen attribution places the designer in what is now Wuppertal, far from Bürgel.