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10 Pfennig Caricature Series - Issue 5
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Arnstadt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | A. Paul Weber |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Arnstadt 10 Pfennig 1921 Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Der Magistrat A PAUL WEBER |
| Reverse description | Cream-ground note printed in red-brown and black, centred on a humorous caricature vignette of two quarrelling figures — an old woman wielding a wooden spoon or ladle and another brandishing a shoe — perched astride a large black numeral "0" forming part of the denomination, executed in a bold woodcut style consistent with the series designer. The denomination numeral "10" appears in each corner within the ruled border, with "Pfennig" in large Gothic script at the foot; a continuous satirical legend runs along all four inner border margins reading "DAS SIND SIE DES TEUFELS / IST ZU STARK – FRÜHER NEN GRO= / SCHEN UND JETZT DREI MARK," and the monogram "APW" is printed at the base centre. |
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A. Paul Weber was already an established satirical illustrator when Arnstadt commissioned this series — his sharp, often biting graphic style made him a natural fit for the caricature notgeld genre that briefly flourished across German municipalities in the early 1920s. These issues were produced as much for collector sale as for local exchange, a commercial reality the Magistrat understood perfectly well.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a recording or transcription error — Arnstadt's notgeld program belongs firmly to the 1921 inflationary period.