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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jena (City of Jena, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER UNIVERSITÄTS-STADT JENA 50 PF. DIE GÜLTIGKEIT ERLISCHT 5 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHEM AUFRUF JENA, 9. MAI 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND: OBERBÜRGERMEISTER DER GEMEINDERAT: VORSITZENDER Ant. Kämpfe · Jena |
| Reverse description | Multicolour lithograph in yellow, dark green, and grey-blue tones presenting a street-level view of the Collegium Jenense, the historic main building of the University of Jena, with a clock tower rising above the ivy-clad façade and groups of figures gathered before the arched entrance. A ribbon cartouche in the upper left corner carries the legend UNIVERSITÄT JENA, while a circular denomination medallion appears in the lower right corner. The woodcut-style rendering gives the scene a characteristically Expressionist quality typical of high-quality Weimar-era Notgeld artistry. |
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Jena's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point, the Reichsbank's coin shortage had been grinding for years, and hundreds of German towns were commissioning local printers to plug the gap. Ant. Kämpfe was a Jena-based firm, so this note never left the city even in production. That local loop — issued, printed, and circulated within the same town — was common for smaller Thuringian municipalities but makes provenance straightforward.
Jena's issues from this period are catalogued under the Grabowski-Mehl Notgeld reference system, which accounts for the P#GRM prefix rather than a standard Pick number.