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30 Pfennig Arms Industry Series
| Issuer | Stadt Suhl (City of Suhl) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal format notgeld on a tan ground, enclosed by a dashed rectangular border. The denomination '30 Pfg.' appears in the upper left in red Fraktur numerals with black Gothic lettering, while a central vignette presents an inked line-art rendering of the Suhl gunsmith monument — a figure atop a tall column rising from an ornate basin. To the upper right, the city arms of Suhl are printed in red and black. To the left, the issuer inscription in Gothic script reads 'Gutschein der Stadt Suhl', and to the right a validity clause and the facsimile signature of Der Magistrat (Hertwig) appear in black letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Vertical format with a decorative border of interlaced floral and ribbon motifs in red and black. The central vignette portrays a seventeenth-century arquebusier in period costume, carrying a matchlock arquebus over his shoulder and a sword at his side, rendered in detailed black line-art against a stippled cream ground. The large numeral '30' in red appears in the upper left, and two-line Gothic inscriptions frame the image at the top and bottom, referencing Suhl's historical role as Europe's arsenal and its supply of arquebus weapons during the Thirty Years' War. |
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Suhl's identity as a gunmaking center stretches back to the sixteenth century, and the city leaned hard into that reputation when issuing its Notgeld series during the early 1920s inflation period. The Arms Industry Series was a deliberate piece of civic self-promotion as much as emergency currency, commissioned from local designer K. Mundt rather than farmed out to a commercial art house — an unusual choice that kept the imagery rooted in the town's own craft tradition.
Adolf Forker in Leipzig handled the presswork. Hertwig's single-signature authorization was the norm for Suhl municipal issues of this run.