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50 Pfennigs Notgeld-Sammlerbund
| Issuer | Notgeld-Sammlerbund, Weimar (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | A detailed letterpress vignette illustrates a scene from Friedrich Schiller's poem 'Das Lied von der Glocke' (The Song of the Bell), with multiple figures raising a large inscribed bell marked 'CONCORDIA' amid a crowd of townspeople, rendered in fine cross-hatched line engraving on a warm ochre underprint. In the lower left, a circular medallion bears a left-facing portrait of Schiller with his name inscribed around the rim. A decorative scroll banner across the lower margin carries the red-printed quotation 'Seid einig, einig, einig!' in Gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | CONCORDIA SCHILLER Seid einig, einig, einig! |
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The Notgeld-Sammlerbund — the German Notgeld collectors' association — issued this piece in 1922 not as emergency currency at all, but expressly for the collector market. By that point the original wave of municipal Notgeld had already inspired a secondary industry: towns and private organizations printing attractive small notes with no genuine monetary intent, sold directly to hobbyists. The Sammlerbund's own entry into this trade is something of a self-referential artifact — a collectors' organization issuing collectible scrip about collecting.
Weimar was a natural home for this kind of cultural novelty in 1922, with the Bauhaus still active in the city.