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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 Gräv. F.P. Dürwing Eisenach |
| Reverse description | Green-tinted reverse centred on a circular rust-red vignette containing a bust portrait of the Low German author Fritz Reuter, rendered in detailed pen-and-ink. To the left of the portrait is a view of a neoclassical villa set in parkland, and to the right a garden monument with a sculpted bust on a columned plinth. A lower register is divided into three small panels with silhouetted genre scenes and a facsimile signature 'Fritz Reuter' in the central lower panel. A two-line blackletter verse inscription runs across the full width of the upper margin. |
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Robert Dahms was a publisher, not a bank — his Eisenach firm issued this 50 Pfennig note as Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Retailers, publishers, municipalities, and private businesses all filled the vacuum left by the collapse of coin circulation, and the resulting flood of emergency issues was itself a minor publishing phenomenon. Dahms had obvious means to produce printed material and apparently saw little reason not to join in.
Gebrüder Gotthelft in Cassel had long experience printing commercial and official documents, which kept the physical quality of these notes a step above the cruder municipal issues.