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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stützerbach (Municipality of Stützerbach), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Ochre and black pictorial vignette occupying the right portion of the note, showing a seated craftsman blowing a glass tube at a workbench fitted with a blower lamp apparatus, rendered in a bold Art Nouveau illustrative style. The large denomination '20 Pfg.' is set in heavy display lettering at the upper left. The text 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE STÜTZERBACH P.A.I.TH.' runs along the lower border, with the printer's imprint 'Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig' below the design, and repeated denomination inscriptions framing the left and right side borders. |
| Reverse lettering | Glasbläser an der Gebläselampe arbeitend 20 Pfg. GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE STÜTZERBACH P.A.I.TH. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig ZWANZIG PFENNIG (border repeating) |
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Stützerbach is a small glassmaking village in the Thuringian Forest, and this 20 Pfennig Notgeld was issued during the inflationary emergency of 1921 when small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own emergency scrip during this period, but the quality varied enormously — Forker in Leipzig was a competent commercial printer, and the series tends to hold its impression well.
Stützerbach is also known as the village where Goethe stayed repeatedly and kept a small hunting lodge. Whether the municipality leaned into that association for the Notgeld artwork is documented elsewhere in the catalog.