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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tiefurt (Municipality of Tiefurt, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 July 1922 |
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| Obverse description | Tan and rust-red Notgeld note with a decorative leaf-and-berry border in the letterpress style. At centre, an oval cameo vignette carries a left-facing silhouette portrait of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, encircled by the legend HERZOGIN · ANNA · AMALIE ·, flanked by hand-drawn ribbon bows in red. Below the cameo, a two-line quotation in Kurrent script from Goethe's Faust accompanies the large denomination numeral 25 Pf in red; the issue date TIEFURT, 1. AUG. 1921 and validity limit GÜLTIG BIS 1. JULI 1922 appear at lower left and right respectively, with two facsimile manuscript signatures above their respective titles GEMEINDE=VORSTAND and GEMEINDERATS=VORS. The designer's monogram M. W. Schulz is inscribed in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD GEMEINDE TIEFURT HERZOGIN · ANNA · AMALIE · "Zu wissen sei es jedem, der's begehrt: Der Zettel hier ist 25 ... wert." Goethe, Faust. GEMEINDE=VORSTAND GEMEINDERATS=VORS. TIEFURT, 1. AUG. 1921. GÜLTIG BIS 1. JULI 1922. |
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Tiefurt is a village on the Ilm river, today a suburb of Weimar, and its notgeld issue owes its existence almost entirely to that proximity. The Ilm Park at Tiefurt was a favored retreat of Goethe and the Weimar court, which made the municipality a minor but genuine piece of Weimar classicism geography — and in 1921, dozens of such communities exploited that cultural cachet to produce collector-targeted notgeld that barely circulated at all.
Wiedemannsche Druckerei in Saalfeld handled a substantial volume of Thuringian notgeld during this period. Designer credit to M. W. Schulz is specific enough to be useful but otherwise unattested in the major notgeld literature.