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50 Pfennig History Series
| Issuer | Neustadt an der Orla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The upper register carries a panoramic cityscape vignette of Neustadt as recorded by Merian in 1650, captioned "Neustadt 1650 / nach Merian." The central field is divided into three panels: the left panel bears the legend "Tucher" above crossed shears and a bolt of cloth, the middle panel presents the municipal coat of arms — a golden twin-towered gate with a lion passant below, set within a foliate surround — and the right panel carries the legend "Gerber" above two rampant lions flanking a tanning vat and post. The lower register bears the denomination "50 Pf" in large numerals at each corner, the issuing authority "Neustadt an der Orla," validity text, date "Neustadt / 1.9.21," and the manuscript signature of Bürgermeister Gerhard, with the printer's imprint "Druck: Johannes Arndt, Jena" below the frame. |
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| Signature(s) | Gerhard (Bürgermeister) |
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Neustadt an der Orla was among hundreds of Thuringian municipalities that turned to local notgeld in 1921 not from wartime necessity but from a genuine shortage of small change — Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from everyday commerce as the inflationary spiral accelerated. What distinguishes this series is the deliberate "History Series" framing, which suggests the issuing committee made a conscious decision to use the notes as civic documents rather than bare emergency scrip. That was common enough in educated market towns, where notgeld had already acquired collector value and municipalities knew it.
Johannes Arndt Druckerei in Jena was a regional workhorse printer for Thuringian notgeld — reliable, not distinguished.