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50 Pfennig Townscape Series
| Issuer | City of Auma (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The upper centre bears a large heraldic eagle with spread wings set against a white starburst, beneath which hang two polychrome armorial shields: at left, a red field charged with seven white six-pointed stars; at right, a blue field bearing two green conifers with a small red heart above. The denomination "50" appears in bold red numerals at centre, flanked by the Gothic-script legend "Notgeld Pfennig", with "Auma" in large Gothic lettering along the lower margin, the whole enclosed within an elaborate ochre acanthus-scroll border with foliate medallions at each corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig DIESER GUTSCHEIN DER STADT AUMA VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTL. BEKANTGABE DER STADTGEM. VORST. 1. NOV. 1921 |
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Auma is a small Thuringian market town — population under 3,000 even today — and its 1921 Notgeld issue is a product of the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar monetary dislocation. Municipal and commercial issuers across the Reich filled the gap themselves, and local printers like Jügelt's Buchdruckerei handled the work directly, which is why the typography on provincial pieces like this often reflects the technical ceiling of a small-town press rather than anything from Leipzig or Berlin.
The "Townscape Series" designation indicates the issue was likely designed with the collector market in mind — a widespread practice by 1921, when municipalities had noticed that philatelic demand meant many notes would never return for redemption.