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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Weimar (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-green and gold tones, with the city name WEIMAR in bold lettering across a decorative banner at the top. The central vignette presents the coat of arms of Weimar — a golden shield bearing a black lion with red hearts, surmounted by a crested helm with elaborate mantling — rendered in a painterly Art Nouveau style by K. Lindegreen. Denomination numerals '50' appear in ornate cartouches at lower left and upper right, flanked by inscribed panels reading 'DEN VEREHRERN VON ILM ATHEN GEWIDMET' and 'FÜR DEN ZAHLUNGSVERKEHR NICHT ZULÄSSIG', with the date 'WEIMAR DEZEMBER 1921' below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | WEIMAR 50 SCHILLERHAUS Offseldruck Arthur Kirchner, Erfurt. |
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Weimar's municipal notgeld program of 1921 leaned heavily on its cultural brand — the city had become the symbolic seat of the new republic just two years earlier, and local authorities were not shy about exploiting that association. Arthur Kirchner's Erfurt offset shop handled a substantial volume of Thuringian notgeld during this period, producing notes for multiple municipalities simultaneously, which sometimes makes precise attribution of press runs difficult.
K. Lindegreen's design credit is relatively unusual for notgeld of this type — most municipal issues at this scale went uncredited. The DeNG 1396 reference covers two distinct varieties, distinguished by minor printing differences rather than date or denomination changes.