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50 Pfennig Hunting Series - Issue 4
| Issuer | Stadt Bürgel (City of Bürgel, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Kunstanstalt Alfred Eisenach, Bürgel, Germany |
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| Obverse description | At centre-top, the circular civic seal of Bürgel — inscribed 'SIEGEL DER STADT BÜRGEL' and enclosing an equestrian rendition of St. George slaying the dragon — forms the principal vignette, flanked by pictorial vignettes of ceramic pottery vessels against a silhouetted townscape of Bürgel, with oak-leaf ornament along the upper border. Two octagonal panels bearing the numeral '50' anchor the lower-left and lower-right corners, while the payment legend, issue date, printer's imprint, and facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister fill the lower third in letterpress. Serial number and denomination text are printed in a typeset arrangement consistent with German Notgeld production practice of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a humorous genre vignette in the illustrative tradition of German Serienschein art, signed 'Arno Grimm' in the lower right: a butcher cleaves game on a wooden block while a large dog stands in the foreground and a courier at right carries a parcel labelled 'Jena'. A wreath-encircled denomination roundel bearing the numeral '50' in orange occupies the centre of the composition, a two-line rhyming couplet in Gothic script runs across the upper border, and the full denomination legend appears in a dark panel at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Man teilt das Wild mit viel Geschick Nach Jena kommt ein Hinterstück Fünfzig Pfennig der Stadt Bürgel/Th 50 Jena |
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