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50 Pfennig Bauernkrieg Series - C
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Mühlhausen (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD · DER · STADT · MÜHLHAUSEN 50 Pfennig Mühlhausen i. Th. 1 Oktb. 1921 Der Magistrat: Oberbürgermeister Stadtrat Mühlhausen in Thüringen und der Bauernkrieg 1523–1525 Zahlbar bei allen Kassen · Drei Monate gültig · Die Billigkeit erlaubt · nach ortsüblichem Aufruf PAUL FISCHER, MÜHLHAUSEN i. TH. |
| Reverse description | A bold woodcut-style vignette on the left half shows a group of armed peasant soldiers — helmeted, bearing spears and halberds — pressing forward over a stone parapet, rendered in a vigorous expressionist line style initialled 'K.U.' at lower left. To the right, the denomination '50 Pfg.' is printed in large red and black Gothic numerals, below which a historical text in period Gothic script recounts Thomas Müntzer's arrival in Mühlhausen and the subsequent march to Frankenhausen. The series letter 'C' appears beneath the denomination. |
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Mühlhausen carries particular weight for this series — it was the operational base of Thomas Müntzer during the 1525 Peasants' War, and the city leaned into that association heavily during the Weimar-era notgeld boom. The Bauernkrieg series was a deliberate piece of local mythologizing, issued at a moment when radical politics had again become live currency in Germany.
Paul Fischer was a local Mühlhausen printer, not a specialist notgeld house, which accounts for the modest production values relative to the more elaborate series coming out of Berlin or Leipzig at the time. Ullrich's design work is competent but regional in character.