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1.50 Mark Verlag Neustädter Kreisbote
| Issuer | Verlag des Neustädter Kreisboten, Neustadt an der Orla (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1.50 Mark |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress composition centred on an outline map of the Neustädter Kreis with place names Oppurg, Neustadt, Weida, and Berga; a clenched fist superimposed as symbolic vignette. Four stanzas of German verse in Gothic script surround the map; serial number at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Von Kindheit an, vom Knaben bis zum Greise, Von der Urahne bis zum jüngsten Kind Mit unsrer Heimat, dem "Neustädter Kreise" Wir alle eng und fest verwachsen sind.... Ihn, unsern "Kreis" nun will zertrümmern Der "Herr von Brandenstein" mit rauher Hand Mit ihm und aus ihm will er andre zimmern, wie er… |
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Neustadt an der Orla was a small Thuringian town of perhaps four thousand people in 1921, and the Neustädter Kreisbote was its local newspaper. That a regional press publisher would issue emergency currency — Notgeld — was not unusual in the inflationary chaos following Germany's defeat, but the 1.50 Mark denomination is an odd one, reflecting the highly localized arithmetic of shortages rather than any standardized scheme.
The Graumann reference 964.3 places this within a documented series, suggesting at minimum two other denominations from the same issuer exist in the catalog literature.