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50 Pfennig Rhyme Series - Issue F
| Issuer | Stadt Apolda (City of Apolda), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown and black on cream paper, the obverse is framed within a decorative geometric border, with the header panel bearing the title 'Notgeld der Stadt Apolda' in large red Gothic letterpress. The city's heraldic coat of arms is centred beneath the header, with the bold denomination '50 PFENNIG' in red at centre flanked by acceptance and validity clauses in black Gothic script. The issue date 'Apolda, den 1. August 1921' and facsimile signatures of the municipal authorities appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green and black on cream paper within a multi-layered ornamental border, the reverse carries the denomination '50' in red at each corner. A central vignette presents a panoramic engraved view of Apolda's historic market square, with a bustling market scene in the foreground and the town hall tower rising at right; the series letter 'F' appears in red at the upper left of the vignette frame. A two-line rhyming couplet in black Gothic script referencing the local dog market is inscribed beneath the scene. |
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Apolda's 1921 Notgeld series is among the more deliberately literary of the German municipal emergency issues — each note in the set carries a short rhyme, a quirk common enough in Thuringian Notgeld but executed here with enough local flavor to attract thematic collectors beyond the usual regional scope. Adolf Forker of Leipzig was a minor but prolific printer of Thuringian Notgeld, handling multiple municipal commissions during the 1921 inflationary surge when cities were essentially designing their own paper economies.
The "F" designation marks this as the sixth issue sub-series, suggesting sustained demand well into the hyperinflationary period.