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50 Pfennig Verlag von Robert Dahms
| Issuer | Verlag von Robert Dahms, Eisenach |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Von Eisenach an der Wartburg Fuß Dem sagen- u. waldumwebten Dien' Euch der Männer Bild als Gruß Die hier einst wirkten und lebten Verlag von Robert Dahms, Eisenach Gebr. Gotthelft, Cassel. Buch- u. Steindruckerei gez. u. P.P. DRAwing Eisenach |
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| Reverse lettering | Ein feste Burg — ein ganzer Mann — sein Wort sie sollen lassen stahn Martin Luther Luther-haus Lutherkeller P.P.D. |
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Robert Dahms was a publisher — Verlag is simply the German word for publishing house — and Eisenach-based publishers occasionally issued small-denomination emergency money (Notgeld) during and after the First World War when coinage all but vanished from circulation. That a commercial publisher rather than a municipality or savings bank put its name on this note is the detail worth pausing on: Dahms was essentially self-authorizing, as many private businesses did in that chaotic period.
Gebrüder Gotthelft of Cassel were a well-established printing firm with a long history of commercial and security work. The "P.P. Drawing" designer credit is unusually informal — likely a local illustrator working on commission rather than a professional banknote engraver.