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50 Pfennig Fuchsturmgemeinde
| Issuer | Fuchsturmgemeinde Jena (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Notschein der Fuchsturmgemeinde 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: Druck von Johannes Arndt, Jena. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vivid multicolour woodcut-style vignette in the folk-art manner of the Thuringian Notgeld tradition, signed by artist Hans Huckeheim. At left, a young man in period costume plays a lute beneath pine trees, while at right an older couple and a small girl in traditional dress stand before a panoramic landscape with a distant view of the Fuchsturm tower above red-roofed village buildings. Along the lower margin, a musical staff inscribed "Fuchsturmhymne" carries a melody line with the text "Di ra di da la ru la la"; denomination numerals "50" appear in circular cartouches at lower left and right. |
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Jena's Fuchsturmgemeinde — the civic association responsible for maintaining the Fuchsturm tower on the Kernberge hills above the city — issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar economic dislocation. Local associations, municipalities, and even private businesses across Thuringia printed their own fractional notes during 1921, and this piece is one of the more obscure examples from that flood of emergency issue.
Hans Huckeheim's involvement places this among the more carefully designed Jena Notgeld pieces of the period. Johannes Arndt's press in Jena handled a number of local issues that year.