50 Pfennig Hunting Series - Issue 3

Bürgel's third issue in its Hunting Series belongs to a wave of municipal Kleingeldscheine that flooded Germany in 1921 as coin shortages, driven by wartime metal requisitions and postwar hoarding, left small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Cities, towns, and even individual firms printed their own emergency fractional notes, often using them as a simultaneous exercise in local promotion — collectors were a known audience, and municipalities leaned into it.

Arno Grimm's involvement and local printing by Kunstanstalt Alfred Eisenach, a Bürgel-based commercial art printer, kept this series unusually close to home. The thematic coherence across the three issues is deliberate; hunting imagery had deep roots in Thuringian civic identity.