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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weida (City of Weida), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Weida 50 1655 Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Abruf Weida 30.9.21 Gemeinde vor P. Olle Gemeindevorstands-Palast Druck: Johannes Arndt Jena |
| Reverse description | Full-colour vignette in yellow, blue, and red tones presenting a view through a large Romanesque stone arch into the ruins of the Wiesenkirche (Meadow Church) of Weida, dated 1921 in the upper left corner, with the intact tower rising behind the crumbling nave walls. A yellow banner across the lower margin carries the denomination '50' at each side flanking the inscription in Gothic blackletter. The printer's imprint appears below the design at foot. |
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Weida's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the peak period of German municipal emergency currency, when inflation was accelerating fast enough that the Reichsbank could not supply sufficient small-denomination coin or paper to meet day-to-day commercial demand. Hundreds of Thuringian towns printed their own Kleingeldersatz that year — Weida among them — using local printers who were often better equipped for commercial jobbing work than for banknote production.
Johannes Arndt in Jena handled a number of these municipal contracts across the region. The relatively small run sizes and short intended circulation periods mean condition varies wildly across surviving examples.