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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tiefurt (Municipality of Tiefurt, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG, Saalfeld, Thuringia |
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| Obverse description | Olive-grey toned notgeld with a decorative foliate border in black and orange-red. At centre, an oval cameo-style vignette bears a silhouette portrait in left profile of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, encircled by the inscription 'HERZOGIN ANNA AMALIE' and flanked by ornamental orange-red ribbon bows. Below the vignette, two lines of German script quote Goethe's Faust, with the denomination '50 Pf' in large numerals at centre, the issuing authority and date 'TIEFURT, 1. AUG. 1921' at lower left, and the validity date 'GÜLTIG BIS 1. JULI 1922' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and ochre toned reverse with a matching foliate border in the same decorative style as the obverse. The central vignette, signed 'M.W. Schulz' in the upper right corner, presents an ink-drawn garden monument — a classical urn atop a pedestal set among dense foliage — bearing an oval portrait medallion and a stone plaque inscribed 'DEM VEREWIGTEN LEOPOLD ANNA · AMALIA'. A lower cartouche carries a three-line verse attributed to Schiller. |
| Reverse lettering | DEM VEREWIGTEN LEOPOLD ANNA · AMALIA STÜRZTE · AUCH · IN · KRIEGESFLAMMEN DEUTSCHLANDS · KAISERREICH · ZUSAMMEN DEUTSCHE · GRÖSSE · BLEIBT · BESTEHN SCHILLER M.W. Schulz WIEDEMANNSCHE DRUCKEREI A.-G. SAALFELD I. THÜR. |
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