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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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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Pale green-tinted Notgeld printed in Fraktur blackletter script. The central text panel carries a rhyming verse in seven lines flanked on left and right by line-drawn vignettes of two children in a woodland stream setting; denomination numerals '50' appear in corner cartouches. A dedication inscription in Fraktur runs along the lower margin, signed by the publisher. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sein Schaffen hier - so treu und hehr, wie wenn er hier geboren wär. M. v. Schwind |
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Eisenach's 1921 notgeld series is unusual in that individual issues were sponsored by local commercial publishers rather than issued directly through municipal administrative offices. The "Verlag von Robert Dahms" designation names a Eisenach bookseller and publisher who underwrote this particular denomination — a common arrangement in Thuringian notgeld whereby private firms effectively co-branded civic emergency currency, presumably offsetting printing costs in exchange for the advertising value of their name on a circulating note.
Gebrüder Gotthelft of Cassel printed a substantial volume of Thuringian notgeld during this period and their presswork is generally consistent. The "Home-made" composition notation in the census record flags non-standard paper stock — likely sourced locally rather than through a specialist security paper supplier.