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50 Pfennig Goethe Series - Issue 4
| Issuer | Magistrat und Gemeinderat der Stadt Pößneck (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width polychrome vignette in a flat woodcut-inspired style, signed 'Rötfndu.' at upper left, illustrating a scene from Goethe's 'Hermann und Dorothea' with a group of figures in 18th-century dress: at left, refugees crowd around a cart, while at centre a dignified man in a dark frock coat gestures toward two younger men at right. A light underprint of text runs across the central field. The top border panel bears the title 'Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck' in Gothic script flanked by the numeral '50' at each corner, while the bottom border panel carries a further quotation in Gothic blackletter; the printer's imprint 'Druck: Johannes Arndt-Jena' appears below the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck 50 Hat uns, vief er, nom nicht das Unglück also gebändigt: Druck: Johannes Arndt-Jena |
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Pößneck issued multiple rounds of Kleingeldscheine during the early 1920s inflationary period, and this fourth issue in the Goethe series reflects the town's decision to anchor its emergency currency to a regional cultural identity rather than civic imagery — a common enough instinct in Thuringia, given Weimar's proximity. Johannes Arndt in Jena was a reliable provincial printer for this type of work, producing competent but unspectacular results across numerous Thüringian municipalities during the same period.
The reference suffix "4a-4/10" suggests variant tracking within the issue, likely tied to serial number blocks or minor typographic differences between print runs.