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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jena (City of Jena, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow and dark brown Notgeld note with a dense geometric guilloche underprint of interlocking circles and star motifs filling the central field. Two diagonal ribbon banners bearing the legend UNIVERSITATS-STADT JENA cross the centre, flanking the large numeral 50 PF.; the city arms — a crowned figure on an eagle displayed — appear in vignette form at both left and right within a dark decorative border of yellow cross-hatched lozenges and stars. Issue date and facsimile signatures of the Oberbürgermeister and Gemeinderat Vorsitzender appear at the lower centre, with the printer's imprint Ant. Kämpfe Jena below the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER UNIVERSITÄTS-STADT JENA 50 PF. DIE GÜLTIGKEIT ERLISCHT 3 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHEM AUFRUF JENA, 9. MAI 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND: OBERBÜRGERMEISTER DER GEMEINDERAT: VORSITZENDER Ant. Kämpfe · Jena |
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Jena's 1921 Notgeld issues belong to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point, the Reichsbank's coin shortage had become chronic enough that hundreds of German cities were contracting local printers rather than waiting for central authorization. Ant. Kämpfe was a Jena-based commercial printer with no particular prestige in the Notgeld world, which makes these thoroughly local objects: designed, printed, and spent within the same small city.
The 1921 dating places this squarely in the inflationary climb before the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1922–23, when such fractional Pfennig denominations would become effectively worthless within months of issue.