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50 Pfennig Goethe and Schiller Series - Schiller, Red Issue
| Issuer | Stadt Weimar (City of Weimar) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Dietsch & Brückner, Weimar, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and red in a dense allegorical composition. Two nude male figures, bound in chains, emerge from swirling clouds at the left and right margins against a dark background with red flame motifs. At centre, a circular red-outlined medallion encloses a four-line quotation from Schiller's "Ode to Joy" in red letterpress, flanked below by two crossed swords. A small artist's signature appears in the lower right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | UNSER SCHULDBUCH SEI VERNICHTET! AUSGESOHNT DIE GANZE WELT! BRÜDER – ÜBERM STERNENZELT RICHTET GOTT, WIE WIR GERICHTET. |
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Weimar's 1921 notgeld program was one of the more self-conscious exercises in civic branding produced by the inflation crisis. The city leaned hard into its literary associations at a moment when the Weimar Republic had just borrowed its name, and the Goethe-Schiller series was almost certainly calculated to capitalize on that overlap — positioning the municipality between the new republic's symbolic geography and its own Enlightenment-era credentials.
Dietsch & Brückner were a local Weimar firm, which was unusual; most municipalities outsourced notgeld printing to larger houses in Leipzig or Berlin. The red-tinted Schiller issue is the color variant distinguished from the blue within the same 50 Pfennig denomination, a common differentiator used to extend series collectibility and, frankly, to drive secondary market sales during the notgeld collector mania of the early 1920s.