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50 Pfennig Fuchsturmgemeinde
| Issuer | Fuchsturmgemeinde Jena |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Hans Huckestein |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a hilltop castle ruin flanked by two figures on green panels: a medieval armoured lansquenet at left and a top-hatted civilian with a telescope at right; combined arms shield above the central scene; denomination 50 in lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | Hie gut Kirchberg allwege Schwingt Ihr die Kanne noch wie junst? — "Wie junst!" Hans Huckestein 50 50 |
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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.