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50 Pfennig Fuchsturmgemeinde
| Issuer | Fuchsturmgemeinde Jena |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Hans Huckestein Gib für den Schein uns gutes Geld, dieweil der Fuchsturm sonst zerfällt, in dieser Zeit der schweren Not auch er bereits mit "Umsturz" droht Dieser Schein ist den Freunden des Fuchsturms gewidmet und gilt nicht als Zahlungsmittel. Der Vorstand der Fuchsturmgemeinde Jena, im Dez. 1921. der Präsident: Notschein der Fuchsturmgemeinde Druck von Johannes Arndt, Jena. |
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| Signature(s) | L. Arnold (der Präsident) |
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Fuchsturmgemeinde — the "Fox Tower Community" — was the civic association responsible for maintaining the medieval watchtower on the Hausberg hill above Jena. Like hundreds of similar local bodies across Weimar Germany in 1921, it turned to notgeld not out of banking necessity but as a deliberate revenue source: collectors were buying these small-denomination emergency notes faster than they could spend them, and issuers knew it.
Hans Huckestein's involvement marks this above the average Jena notgeld issue. The printing was handled locally by Johannes Arndt, a Jena firm that produced several regional series during this period. Signed by L. Arnold as president of the association.