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25 Pfennig Hunting Series - Issue 1
| Issuer | Stadtgemeindevorstand Bürgel (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | SIEGEL DER STADT BÜRGEL Dieser Gutschein wird in unserer Kämereikaffe in Zahlung genomen Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung Bürgel/Th. d. 28 Mai 1921 Kunstanstalt Alfred Eisenach Bürgel Stadtgemeindevorstand Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in slate-blue and orange and carries a lively folk-art vignette by Arno Grimm, whose signature appears in the lower centre field: to the left, a group of three hunters in period costume with a musket and a dachshund gather in animated conversation before a stone wall, while to the right a town crier reads a proclamation in a Gothic archway. A central medallion formed by a wreath tied with orange ribbons bears the numeral 25 in orange Gothic type. A two-line rhyming couplet in Kurrent script across the upper banner records the historical proclamation of free hunting rights, and the denomination legend in Gothic blackletter runs along the full lower border. |
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Bürgel notgeld from 1921 sits within one of the most prolific chapters of German municipal emergency currency — but the Hunting Series printed by Alfred Eisenach distinguishes itself through genuine local craft. Eisenach was a ceramics and fine arts press in a town famous throughout the Reich for its blue-glazed faience; Arno Grimm's designs were drawn for an audience that knew and valued that decorative tradition. These were not purely functional pieces.
The series was issued in multiple installments, and collector demand drove print runs well beyond circulation needs almost immediately — a pattern common to Thuringian notgeld by mid-1921.