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50 Pfennig Hunting Series - Issue 4
| Issuer | Stadt Bürgel (City of Bürgel, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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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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| Obverse lettering | SIEGEL DER STADT BÜRGEL Dieser Gutschein wird in unserer Kämereikasse in Zahlung genommen Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung Bürgel/Th d. 28 Mai 1921 Kunstanstalt Alfred Eisenach Bürgel Stadtgemeindevorstand Bürgermeister 50 |
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Bürgel was a minor Thuringian pottery town with no particular claim to monetary history, which makes its 1921 notgeld series genuinely unusual. The Hunting Series was issued across multiple installments — this being the fourth — a deliberately collectible structure that local authorities used to generate revenue from philatelists and notgeld enthusiasts during the hyperinflationary spiral, rather than simply meeting a change shortage.
Arno Grimm's designs were printed locally by Kunstanstalt Alfred Eisenach, one of several small regional print shops that found brisk business in the notgeld boom. Many such issues were printed in excess of any plausible circulation need and sold directly to collectors, often still in uncut sheets.