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50 Pfennig Goethe Series - Issue 6
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette executed in a woodcut-like letterpress style presents a view of a Thuringian town square with a well in the foreground and a Gothic church tower rising in the background, signed 'Kotschau' in the upper right of the vignette. Flanking the central image are two vertical text panels in Gothic Fraktur script containing verses from Goethe's epic poem 'Hermann und Dorothea', Canto VI ('Erato'), with the canto heading at upper left and the character name 'Dorothea' at upper right. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in red at lower left and right corners, with the issuance text and facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and Gemeinderat of Pößneck, dated 31. Juli 1921, running along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Goethe: Hermann und Dorothea: 6 Aus: Erato. Dorothea. mit dem Begleiter gelangt, und auf das Mäuerchen setzten beide sich nieder des Quells. Sie beugte sich über, zu schöpfen; und er faßte den anderen Krug / und beugte sich über. Und sie sahen gespiegelt ihr Bild in der Bläue des Himmels schwankten / und nickten sich zu / und grüßten sich freundlich im Spiegel. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung Pößneck, den 31. Juli 1921. / Magistrat: und Gemeinderat: 50 Pf. |
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Pößneck was one of dozens of Thuringian municipalities that leaned heavily on Goethe as a unifying cultural shorthand during the notgeld boom of 1921 — partly civic pride, partly a calculated appeal to collectors who were already hoarding the better-designed issues rather than spending them. That secondary market was well understood by town treasurers by this point, and print runs were sized accordingly.
Johannes Arndt in Jena handled much of the small-denomination notgeld work for towns in the region. Designer Kotschau is credited across several notes in this Pößneck series, though biographical detail on him remains thin in the literature.