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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Auma (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | A richly coloured forest vignette occupies the upper portion, with tall pine trunks framing a receding woodland path leading to a distant panoramic view of the town of Auma with its church tower and red-roofed buildings. In the right foreground, a folkloric forest gnome in a red cap sits upon a mushroom cap, surrounded by clusters of porcini mushrooms. Below, a dark banner bears the denomination '50 PF' at each side flanking a three-line rhyming verse in Gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 PF Aum'sche Pilze, jeder will se Such sie dir im Aum'schen Wald Der ist tausend Jahre alt. 50 PF |
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Auma is a small Thuringian market town, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany during the postwar inflation years, when chronic coin shortages forced even minor local authorities to print their own fractional notes. The DeNG reference citing four to five varieties (55.1–4/5) suggests the town issued multiple design or serial variants within the same denomination, which was common among Thuringian municipalities competing — sometimes quite deliberately — for the collector trade that had developed around Serienscheine.
Whether Auma's issue was genuine emergency currency or produced primarily for that collector market is a fair question. By 1921, the line had blurred considerably.