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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tiefurt (Municipality of Tiefurt, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD GEMEINDE TIEFURT HERZOGIN ANNA AMALIE "Zu wissen sei es jedem, der's begehrt: Der Zettel hier ist 50 Pf ...wert." Goethe, Faust. Steinmetz Orlamündig GEMEINDE=VORSTAND TIEFURT, 1. AUG. 1921. GEMEINDERATS=VORS. GÜLTIG BIS 1. JULI 1922. WIEDEMANNSCHE DRUCKEREI A.-G. SAALFELD i.THÜR. |
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| Reverse lettering | GOETHE. M.W. Schulz. |
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Tiefurt is not an independent town but a village directly east of Weimar, historically part of the Weimar ducal estate — the park there was a favourite retreat of Goethe and Anna Amalia. That cultural weight almost certainly explains why a settlement of this size was issuing its own notgeld at all; the Weimar-adjacent villages produced collectible series with unusual enthusiasm during the 1921 inflation wave, targeting the souvenir trade as much as genuine small-change shortages.
Wiedemannsche Druckerei in Saalfeld handled a substantial volume of Thuringian municipal notgeld during this period. The dual-signature requirement — Steinmetz and Orlamündig — was a standard municipal authorization device, though Orlamündig is a distinctly Thuringian surname worth noting.