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50 Pfennig Monastery Series - Issue 1
| Issuer | Gemeinde Paulinzella (Municipality of Paulinzella), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress Notgeld note in red, grey-blue and black. The central vignette presents a view of the Paulinzella monastery complex set against a red-rayed sunburst, flanked on either side by full-length figures of ecclesiastical bishops in red vestments, each holding a crozier and a book. The large Gothic blackletter denomination '50 Pf' occupies the lower centre, beneath which a red panel carries the issuing authority, validity date, and a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand. Verse inscriptions in Gothic script run along the upper and lower borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | Körschau. Notgeld der Gemeinde Paulinzella 50 50 Druck von Johannes Arndt, Jena. |
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Paulinzella is little more than a hamlet — its entire claim to wider attention rests on the Romanesque ruins of a Benedictine priory founded in 1105. The municipality's decision to issue notgeld in 1921 was as much promotional as it was practical; the acute coin shortage of the early Weimar period gave hundreds of small German communities cover to produce decorated emergency currency that doubled as collectible tourist material. Paulinzella leaned into this harder than most.
The "Monastery Series" designation implies a planned sequence, and this Issue 1 piece was printed by Johannes Arndt Druckerei in Jena — a regional firm that handled a number of Thuringian notgeld commissions during this period. Designer Körschau is known by surname only in the philatelic and notgeld literature.