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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Auma (City of Auma, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) |
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| Year | 1917-1919 |
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| Size | 72 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and black on white paper with a fine guilloche border frame. The left panel carries the denomination numeral '50' above the word 'Pfennig' in bold gothic typeface, with the circular town seal of Stadtgemeinde Auma below, bearing a pine tree vignette and the legend 'STADTGEMEINDEVORST. AUMA'. The right panel bears the issuer's title 'Stadtgemeinde Auma' at the top in gothic script, followed by the denomination statement '50 Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig', the date 'Auma, den 1 Oktober 1919', the authority line 'Der Stadtgemeindevorstand', a manuscript signature, and the validity inscription 'Gültig nur im Stadtbezirk Auma'; a lightly printed circular underprint with a tree motif appears in the center. |
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| Signature(s) | Kolbe |
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Auma is a small town in Thuringia that issued this Notgeld note during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward — hoarding of metal coinage had become so widespread that municipal and commercial issuers were formally permitted to fill the gap with low-denomination paper. The Stadtgemeinde series ran through the difficult 1917–1919 window, bracketing both the final phase of the war and the immediate post-armistice chaos.
The single signature, Kolbe, almost certainly belongs to a local municipal official rather than any notable figure. No documentation connecting this name to a broader administrative record has surfaced in the standard Notgeld literature.