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50 Pfennig History Series - Issue 5 - 1635
| Issuer | Stadt Arnstadt (City of Arnstadt, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue and red letterpress Notgeld note with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint. The large denomination numeral '50' in blue is centered, overlaid by the Arnstadt civic eagle vignette in dark red. The Gothic-script legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Arnstadt' arcs across the top, with 'Pfennig' and the year '1921' below the eagle. Validity clause 'Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf' appears at lower left, the serial number and letter prefix at lower right, accompanied by a manuscript signature. The designer's name 'A. PAUL WEBER' is printed in the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Arnstadt 50 Pfennig 1921 Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf a |
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Arnstadt's 1921 Notgeld series was designed by A. Paul Weber, later far better known as a graphic artist and lithographer whose satirical work under the Third Reich would land him in Gestapo custody in 1937. In 1921 he was still a relatively young commercial artist, and the Arnstadt commissions show the tight, expressionist linework that would define his mature style. The series framed local history through specific years — this issue anchoring its imagery to 1635, deep in the Thirty Years' War, when Thuringia was among the most devastated regions in the German-speaking world.