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50 Pfennig Fuchsturmgemeinde
| Issuer | Fuchsturmgemeinde Jena (Thuringia) |
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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 carries a richly coloured nocturnal scene in a painterly letterpress style, showing silhouetted pine trees in the foreground against a grey night sky, with the Fuchsturm tower visible as a dark silhouette on its hill to the upper right. A group of figures with lanterns is depicted in silhouette at lower left, making their way through the forest. A ribbon cartouche in the lower right corner bears the denomination numeral '50' alongside a two-line Gothic verse inscription. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Und haben wir keinen Mondenschein, dann zieh'n wir mit Laternen heim! |
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Fuchsturmgemeinde — literally "Fox Tower Community" — was not a municipality but a social club based around the medieval Fuchsturm tower above Jena, one of the oldest surviving structures in Thuringia. That a recreational association issued its own emergency currency in 1921 speaks directly to how thoroughly the Weimar inflation had fragmented everyday commerce: even private clubs found themselves printing Notgeld to keep small transactions moving when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation.
Johannes Arndt was a Jena-based press, and its output for local Notgeld issuers during this period was prolific. The 1a-5/6 suffix in the DeNG reference indicates at least minor typographic or printing variants within the series.