50 Pfennigs Townscape Series

Auma is a small market town in eastern Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic small-change shortage that followed the First World War. What distinguishes the Auma series is that the printing was handled entirely locally by Jügelt's Buchdruckerei, a town press, rather than one of the specialist Leipzig or Berlin firms that supplied most comparable issues. Local production at this scale is not unusual for Thuringia, but it kept the design and typesetting firmly parochial in character.

The "Townscape Series" designation reflects a broader collector classification, not necessarily a stated intent by the issuing city. Auma's Notgeld issues of this period are catalogued under DeNG 2#55, with the .3 suffix indicating a specific variant within the sequence.