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25 Pfennig Hunting Series - Issue 2
| Issuer | Bürgel (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Arno Grimm |
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| Obverse description | A medieval hunting scene vignette rendered in a woodcut-style illustration occupies the full face of the note: at left, a huntsman in period costume blows a horn and carries a crossbow before a stone tower gate, accompanied by hounds at his feet, while at right two deer stand among oak foliage. At centre, the denomination numeral "25" appears within a circular guilloche medallion tied with an orange ribbon. A two-line Gothic-script inscription runs across the upper portion of the note, and the value legend in Gothic script is set within a dark banner along the lower margin. The designer's signature "Arno Grimm" appears in the lower-left corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Heraus ihr Bürger auf den Platz Heut gibt es eine Hirschenhatz! Fuenfundzwanzig Pfennig der Stadt Bürgel/Th |
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Bürgel was a small Thuringian town with a centuries-old tradition of salt-glazed stoneware pottery, and its 1921 Notgeld series leaned into that local identity rather than issuing the generic patriotic imagery that flooded German emergency currency in those years. The hunting theme here — uncommon for the region — may reflect the influence of the surrounding Saale valley forestry estates rather than any municipal institution.
Alfred Eisenach printing in-house kept costs down during the hyperinflationary spiral that made metal coinage effectively worthless. Arno Grimm's involvement as designer is notable; local artist commissions on Notgeld of this period were sometimes purely decorative exercises aimed at the nascent collector market rather than functional circulation.