50 Pfennig Hunting Series - Issue 4

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.