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50 Pfennig Goethe and Schiller Series - Goethe, Green Issue
| Issuer | Stadt Weimar (City of Weimar) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black with a green oval underprint on a pale buff ground. The central field is occupied by a large allegorical scene in an expressive Jugendstil idiom, enclosed within elaborate scrolling floral borders: a robed figure tends to a recumbent wounded or dying man, with a horse visible in the middle ground and a vessel at lower right. A cartouche at the base of the note bears a Goethe quotation in green letterpress. A designer's signature appears at the lower right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | EDEL SEI DER MENSCH, HILFREICH UND GUT! |
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Weimar notgeld from this period sits in an odd position in German emergency money — the city had genuine cultural prestige to trade on, and it did. Dietsch & Brückner was a local Weimar printing firm, which makes this one of the relatively few notgeld issues actually produced in the same town whose name it bears. Many municipalities sent their emergency currency work to Leipzig or Berlin; Weimar kept it local.
The Goethe and Schiller series was issued as the inflation spiral tightened through 1921, well before the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923 made all such small-denomination paper irrelevant within months of printing.