50 Pfennig, Stadt Pössneck, 1921
Notgeld der Stadt Pössneck
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00570
- Series year
- 1921
- Actually issued
- 1921
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- UNC (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
- Estimated value
- $10 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-09.
- Dimensions
- 103.4 × 69.3 mm (±1.1, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldSerienscheinThuringiaTown armsTown viewWeimar Republic
The type
- Type
- 50 Pfennig, Stadt Pössneck, 1921
- Printer
- Druck von Johannes Arndt, Jena
- Rarity
- common
Inscriptions
Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung. Magistrat und Gemeinderat.
This voucher loses its validity one month after public notice. Magistrate and town council.
Symbology
- Town arms (lion beneath a mural crown)
- The civic arms of Pössneck, a lion on a blue shield, tied to its medieval Thuringian lordship; the mural (walled) crown is the common mark of a town. Set in red Jugendstil interlace on the front of every note in the set.
- Town view (reverse)
- A view of Pössneck in an oval, bordered by repeated "PFENNIG" lettering — the town showing itself off, as these collector notes were meant to.
- "Verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung"
- No fixed expiry date: the voucher simply lapsed a month after the town announced it would no longer be honoured — a flexible clause common on municipal Notgeld.
What was happening
Pössneck is a town in eastern Thuringia, on the Kotschau south of Jena. A cloth- and wool-weaving town from the late Middle Ages, it diversified over the 19th and 20th centuries into porcelain, tanning, chocolate and — above all — large-scale book printing, which it remains known for today. In 1921 it belonged to the former Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen within the new Land of Thuringia.
Like thousands of German towns in the inflation years, Pössneck issued decorative Serienscheine — emergency small change produced in sets, far beyond any real need, for sale to collectors. This note is the 50-Pfennig value of a three-note set (25, 50 and 75 Pfennig) whose shared front shows the town arms — a lion on a blue shield beneath a mural crown — framed in bold red interlace, over "STADT PÖSSNECK · NOTGELD". The reverse carries a view of the town in an oval cartouche. Signed for the "Magistrat und Gemeinderat"; the design carries the artist's mark "Rohde, Jena"; printed by Johannes Arndt of Jena.
The note lost its validity one month after public notice of withdrawal.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 50 Pfennig, Stadt Pössneck, 1921 in the collection.
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