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30 Pfennig Arms Industry Series
| Issuer | Stadt Suhl (City of Suhl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Adolf Forker, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on a cream-toned paper ground with a stippled underprint. At upper left, the denomination '30 Pfg.' appears in Gothic script with the numeral in red. A central vignette presents a tall column monument surmounted by a standing armoured figure, set within an octagonal fountain basin. To the upper right, the municipal coat of arms of Suhl — a red fortified gate with crossed rifles — is rendered in red and black. The issuer designation 'Gutschein der Stadt Suhl' is set in Fraktur script at left, with a validity clause and the magistrate's facsimile signature of Hertwig at right. A chequered border frames the entire composition, with printer and designer credits noted at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 30 Pfg. Gutschein der Stadt Suhl Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht einen Monat nach erfolgtem Aufruf des Magistrates bei der Kämmereikasse eingelöst wird. Der Magistrat: Hertwig Entwurf K Mundt Suhl Druck Adolf Forker, Leipzig |
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Suhl had been a center of German arms manufacture since the sixteenth century, and the city leaned into that identity when commissioning its 1920 Notgeld series. The designer, K. Mundt, was a local — an unusual choice at a time when municipalities often farmed out Notgeld artwork to commercial illustrators with no connection to the place.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig handled the printing, a firm that produced considerable volumes of municipal emergency currency during the 1920–1921 peak of Notgeld issuance. The single Hertwig signature appears without title, which was common for Suhl's civic administration at this period.