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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Weimar (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | WEIMAR DEN VEREHRERN VON ILM ATHEN GEWIDMET 50 WEIMAR DEZEMBER 1921 FÜR DEN ZAHLUNGSVERKEHR NICHT ZULÄSSIG! K. LINDEGREEN L. Riecke |
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| Reverse lettering | WEIMAR 50 GOETHEHAUS Offsedtruck Arthur Kirchner, Erfurt. K. LINDEGREEN 1921 |
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Weimar's 1921 Notgeld issue came at the height of Germany's municipal emergency money boom, when thousands of towns and cities flooded the market with small-denomination paper to compensate for the chronic shortage of coins. Arthur Kirchner's Erfurt offset shop produced enormous quantities of Notgeld for Thuringian municipalities during this period — the press run for Weimar's issues was almost certainly split across the four known varieties catalogued under this reference.
Weimar was a deliberate choice of imagery for many collectors at the time, and the city knew it. Some municipalities issued Notgeld cynically as collectible souvenirs rather than genuine emergency instruments, and Weimar was not above this practice.