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50 Pfennig Verlag von Robert Dahms
| Issuer | Stadt Eisenach (City of Eisenach), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with a tripartite layout. The central panel carries a multi-line Gothic script inscription in a white cartouche, flanked on the left by a vignette of a kneeling boy in a woodland setting and on the right by a girl carrying a bundle of wood against a forest backdrop; denomination numerals '50' appear in orange within decorative corner panels at upper left and right. The lower margin bears the publisher's imprint in Roman type, with the printer's credit in small script at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Green and black Notgeld reverse centered on a circular orange-ground vignette with an engraved bust portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach in period wig and lace cravat, enclosed within a laurel wreath border. To the left stands a vignette of the Bach monument and a classical colonnade, while to the right appears a view of Bach's birthplace in Eisenach; a lower register carries silhouette scenes of musical life flanking a facsimile signature. A decorative bordered inscription panel in orange and black occupies the upper margin. |
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Eisenach's municipal notgeld of 1921 came at the height of Germany's small-change crisis, when coin metal had all but vanished from everyday commerce and cities were left to print their own stopgap currency. The Gotthelft brothers in Cassel were among the more prolific regional printers of Thuringian notgeld — competent commercial lithographers rather than fine engravers, which tells you something about the speed and pragmatism of the whole enterprise.
The "Verlag von Robert Dahms" credit identifies a local Eisenach publisher as distributor, a common arrangement where private booksellers and stationers handled notgeld as a sideline — sometimes even speculating on collector demand, which was already organized and voracious by 1921.