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10 Pfennig Caricature Series - Issue 2
| Issuer | Stadt Arnstadt (City of Arnstadt, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#43.1 |
| Obverse description | Red and black bicolour notgeld printed on cream paper, with a wavy-line guilloche underprint filling the entire field. The large denomination numeral '10' in red occupies the centre, superimposed over the stylised black eagle of the Arnstadt civic arms. The Gothic-script heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Arnstadt' arcs across the top, flanked by decorative foliate scroll ornaments; the year '1921' appears at the foot. Validity text 'Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf' is set lower left, with the magistrate's manuscript signature and the legend 'Der Magistrat:' lower right, signed by A. Paul Weber below the frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig 10 10 10 10 MUSS · ICH HAB HUNGER WIE EIN LÖWE · EINEN · MAGEN · WIE NE KUH · DANN · KAUEN · SIE WIEDER · HALTEN SIE RUH · BITTE HERR · WGA · BUROKRA · TIUS · DAS DOPPELTE QUAN · TUM ICH · HABEN |
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A. Paul Weber — best known for his later lithographic work and his complicated entanglement with National Socialist cultural politics — designed this caricature series for Arnstadt during the height of German notgeld production. The satirical small-denomination notes issued by German towns in 1920–21 were as much collectible novelties as emergency currency; municipalities knew collectors were hoarding them unspent, and some issued deliberately whimsical designs to exploit that market directly.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 in this catalog record almost certainly refers to a documentation or acquisition timestamp — not the issue date, which is 1921.