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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Weimar (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Offsetdruck Arthur Kirchner, Erfurt, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is centred on the heraldic arms of Weimar — a golden shield bearing a crowned black lion passant strewn with red hearts, surmounted by a crested helm with elaborate foliate mantling — printed in full colour against a light blue stippled ground. To the upper left a text panel reads 'DEN VEREHRERN VON ILM ATHEN GEWIDMET', while denomination numerals '50' appear in ornamental cartouches at the lower left and upper right. At the top, the city name 'WEIMAR' is set in a gold-tinted banner, with the issue date 'WEIMAR DEZEMBER 1921' inscribed below the central vignette and a manuscript signature of the city treasurer accompanied by the disclaimer 'FÜR DEN ZAHLUNGSVERKEHR NICHT ZULÄSSIG' in the lower right panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-colour painterly vignette of the Weimar Nationaltheater in a winter scene, rendered in the style of a watercolour after a composition by K. Lindegreen; the neoclassical façade with its columned portico and the Goethe-Schiller monument in the forecourt are set against a stormy grey sky, the square blanketed in snow. The city name 'WEIMAR' arches across the top in large relief lettering flanked by denomination cartouches '50' at the upper corners, and a rectangular panel at the foot bears the caption 'NATIONALTHEATER'. The printer's imprint 'Offsetdruck Arthur Kirchner, Erfurt.' appears in small type at the lower right margin. |
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Weimar's notgeld series of 1921 sits at the better-designed end of a phenomenon that had already become something of a collector's market in its own right — municipalities across Germany knew by this point that attractively printed emergency currency would be bought and held rather than spent, effectively functioning as a revenue stream. Arthur Kirchner in Erfurt was a competent regional offset shop that handled several Thuringian commissions during this period.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1 through .4) indicate sheet position differences, not separate issues — a distinction that trips up less experienced collectors of this series.