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50 Pfennig Monastery Series - Issue 4
| Issuer | Gemeinde Paulinzella (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed woodcut-style illustration of Paulinzella Monastery set against a radiating sunburst in orange and red, with the large Gothic blackletter denomination '50 Pf' printed below in black. Two ecclesiastical figures in red vestments, each holding a crozier and a book, flank the central image within blue-grey panels. Inscriptions appear along the upper border, above the denomination panel reading 'Paulinzellner Notgeld / Gültig bis zum 31. März 1922 / der Gemeindevorstand' with a facsimile signature, and along the lower border a poetic quotation attributed to G. C. Stoltz. |
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| Obverse lettering | 4. Ja, was draußen die mächtig erschien steht klein und verächlich Paulinzellner Notgeld Gültig bis zum 31. März 1922 der Gemeindevorstand Vor der Schöpfergewalt, die Unendliches baut. G. C. Stoltz. |
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Paulinzella is a village in the Schwarza valley whose permanent population has historically hovered around a few hundred people — an almost absurdly small issuing authority for a municipality to be producing its own emergency currency. This note belongs to the Notgeld wave of 1921, when German towns and villages of every size issued locally designed scrip partly out of genuine small-change necessity and partly as a self-conscious souvenir trade, since collectors had been aggressively purchasing series since 1920.
The Johannes Arndt press in Jena handled a significant volume of Thuringian Notgeld commissions during this period. The designer credit "Römhau" appears across multiple pieces in this four-issue run — likely a local or regional commercial artist rather than a printmaker of wider reputation.