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50 Pfennig Bauernkrieg Series - B
| Issuer | Mühlhausen (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a large woodcut-style vignette in black and tan occupying the left three-quarters of the note, showing two medieval figures — a bearded elder in chains grasping the arm of a younger man — with a Gothic city panorama visible in the background, the artist's monogram 'K.U.' at lower left. A decorative scalloped black border frames the entire note. To the right, within a plain panel, a historical text in Gothic script recounts events of the Peasants' War, with the denomination '50 Pfg.' printed in bold red numerals at upper right above a circled series letter 'B'. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg. B Nach Unruhen Aufläufen u. Plünderungen zwangen die Acht Mann den Bürgermeister Rodemann, das Regiment der Stadt in ihre Hände zu legen. |
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Mühlhausen holds a specific place in German radical history — it was here that Thomas Müntzer led the Thuringian peasant armies during the 1525 uprising, and the city leaned hard into that identity when commissioning its Bauernkrieg notgeld series in 1921. The choice was deliberate: Weimar-era municipal notgeld was as much a local branding exercise as an emergency currency, and Mühlhausen had the most famous revolutionary episode in the region to draw on.
Printed locally by Paul Fischer, with designs by K. Ullrich. The "B" series designation distinguishes this issue from related Mühlhausen releases within the broader Bauernkrieg set.