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0.75 Mark Verlag Neustädter Kreisbote
| Issuer | Verlag des Neustädter Kreisboten, Neustadt an der Orla |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 0.75 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels: at left, the arms of Triptis; at centre, a vignette of the city; and at right, the denomination value enclosed within ornamental borders. The surrounding text includes a historical note on the founding of Triptis and the conditions of acceptance as payment for advertisements in the Neustädter Kreisboten newspaper. Letterpress printing throughout. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries an old regional poem in letterpress text as the principal design element. At centre, a graphic vignette of a clenched fist is superimposed over a map of the local district, serving as the dominant pictorial motif. |
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Neustadt an der Orla is a small Thuringian town, and the Neustädter Kreisbote was its local newspaper. During the postwar inflationary spiral of 1921, when small-denomination coin virtually vanished from circulation, the paper's publisher did what dozens of German regional newspapers did: issued notgeld backed by nothing more than local trust and the expectation of eventual redemption. The 0.75 Mark denomination is itself characteristic of this period — odd fractional values were common precisely because issuers were trying to fill specific gaps left by missing coin.
The Grabowski reference 964.4 places this within the broader Neustadt an der Orla notgeld series, implying multiple issuing entities from the same small town competed in the same pockets simultaneously.