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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Dornburg an der Saale (City of Dornburg, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette, set within a circular frame against an olive-toned underprint, presents a bird's-eye engraved panorama of Dornburg as it appeared circa 1600, with the castle complex and surrounding wooded hillside rendered in fine letterpress detail. Flanking the central vignette are two vertical grey panels, each bearing the denomination '50 Pfennig' in bold Gothic script with gilt-yellow numerals; the left panel carries a heraldic shield with a pilgrim figure, while the right panel displays the Saxon coat of arms, above which appears the issuing authority inscription and a manuscript date signature. A lower text band in Gothic script reproduces the portal inscription from the Goethe-Schloss, and the printer's imprint 'Druck: Johannes Arndt-Jena' is printed in small type at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a full-colour lithographic vignette, signed 'Kotschau' in the upper left corner, presenting a scenic view of the Dornburger Schlösser perched atop ochre limestone cliffs above densely wooded slopes, rendered in a Jugendstil-influenced palette of greens, yellows, and red-tiled rooftops. The title inscription 'die Dornburger Schlösser' appears in Gothic script at the upper right of the vignette. A lower grey panel in Gothic letterpress carries the denomination numerals '50' at each end flanking the legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Dornburg a/Saale', with the printer's imprint 'Druck: Johannes Arndt-Jena' below. |
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Dornburg an der Saale issued this Notgeld piece during the inflationary spiral that followed Germany's post-war reparations burden — a period when hundreds of small municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency simply because Reichsbank coin had vanished from circulation almost entirely. The Johannes Arndt Druckerei in Jena handled a considerable volume of Thuringian Notgeld work during this period, supplying nearby towns that lacked any independent printing capacity.
Dornburg's issue is among the more modest in the regional series — a single denomination, straightforward production, no elaborate multicolor overprinting of the kind some wealthier municipalities commissioned as collector bait.