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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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| Reverse description | The reverse is composed in a triptych arrangement with a central oval portrait medallion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shown in right-facing profile against a solid red ground, rendered in fine intaglio-style line engraving. To the left is a landscape vignette of a neoclassical villa reflected in water amid tall conifers, and to the right a vignette of a historic gate or tower with clouded sky. A lower register contains four small silhouetted genre scenes of figures reading or resting, separated by a central cartouche bearing Goethe's facsimile signature in script. A Gothic blackletter verse runs across the full width of the upper border in black and red. |
| Reverse lettering | Auch er beglückt uns lieb und tief und schrieb von hier manch reichen Brief Joh. Wolfg. Goethe |
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Eisenach's 1921 Notgeld issues were part of the broader Saxon-Thuringian small-change crisis, when coin shortages driven by postwar hoarding and metal requisitioning forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own fractional currency. The "Verlag von Robert Dahms" line identifies the local publisher who commissioned and distributed this note — a common arrangement in Thuringia, where private publishers acted as intermediaries between the municipality and the printer, taking on commercial risk in exchange for a cut of unsold collector issues.
Gebrüder Gotthelft of Cassel was a prolific Notgeld printer, responsible for a substantial portion of Thuringian municipal issues in 1920–21.