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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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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on plain paper, divided into three vertical panels by a ruled border. The central panel contains a large circular vignette with a red ground, bearing a finely engraved bust portrait of Friedrich Schiller in three-quarter face. Flanking panels carry the denomination "50 PFENNIG" in bold red letterpress at left and right. The lower margin bears the issue date, serial number, issuing authority inscriptions, and two manuscript signatures, with the printer's imprint "DIETSCH & BRÜCKNER, WEIMAR" at the foot. |
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| 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.