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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weida (City of Weida), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Johannes Arndt Druckerei, Jena, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Red and black multicolour letterpress note with a decorative scrollwork border in red tones. At centre, an oval yellow-ground vignette presents a townscape of Weida with twin church spires dated 1655; to the upper left, a circular medallion carries the numeral '50' in green on a blue ground, while the upper right medallion displays the city arms of Weida. Ribbon banners to the left and right bear the validity clause and the issuing authority details, with the city name 'Weida' rendered in bold Gothic blackletter across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ruine der Wiesenkirche 1921 50 Notgeld der Stadt Weida 50 Druck: Johannes Arndt Jena |
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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.