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25 Pfennig Notables and Sights Series - Issue 5 - Marlitt
| Issuer | Stadt Arnstadt (City of Arnstadt, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Arnstadt 25 Pfennig 1921 Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Abruf Der Magistrat a |
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| Reverse lettering | Marlitt 25 25 |
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Arnstadt's fifth notgeld issue honors E. Marlitt — the pen name of Eugenie John, who was born in Arnstadt in 1825 and became one of the best-selling serialized novelists in 19th-century Germany, her fiction running in the family magazine Die Gartenlaube to enormous readership. A local celebrity commemorated on emergency small change is not unusual for Thuringian notgeld, but the choice of a woman writer over the more predictable Bach connection — Arnstadt being where Johann Sebastian Bach served as organist from 1703 — is a deliberate civic statement.
A. Paul Weber, later known primarily as a graphic satirist and printmaker, designed this series early in his career.