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50 Pfennig Verlag von Robert Dahms
| Issuer | Eisenach (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels printed in black and orange on a grey-green ground. The left and right panels each carry a genre vignette — a kneeling boy at play on the left, a young girl standing beside a tree on the right — rendered in a fine woodcut-inspired line style. The central panel bears a Gothic-script text block announcing the denomination and commemorative purpose, flanked by orange ornamental rule strips, with the numeral '50' in large orange figures at each upper corner. A lower border inscription in Fraktur script reads 'Gewidmet den Notgeldsammlern von Freunden des Eisenacher Landes im Herbst 1921', followed by the publisher's signature 'R. Dahms'; the printer's imprint 'Gebr. Gotthelft, Cassel, Buch- u. Steindruckerei' appears at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sein Werk heißt Unvergänglichkeit, es rauscht noch heut wie seiner zeit. Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Eisenach's 1921 Kleingeldscheine were issued during the worst of the small-change famine that plagued German municipal finance in the early Weimar period. The city contracted Gebrüder Gotthelft in Cassel — a firm with a long regional history in commercial and official printing — rather than any of the larger Leipzig or Berlin houses that dominated Notgeld production. The "Verlag von Robert Dahms" credit indicates a local Eisenach publisher acted as distribution intermediary, an arrangement not uncommon in Thuringian towns where the municipality preferred to route issuance through an established local trade contact.
The P.F. drawing credit is almost certainly a local Eisenach commercial artist. The initials appear on other Dahms-distributed issues from the same run.