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97 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Freiberg i. Sa. (City Council of Freiberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Siebenundneunzig Pfennig Gültig im Bezirke der Stadt Freiberg i. Sa. bis auf Widerruf Ausgegeben am Streitag 1921 Der Stadtrat zu Freiberg i. Sa. Haupt, Oberbürgermeister |
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| Signature(s) | Haupt (Oberbürgermeister) |
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Freiberg's city council issued this odd-denomination scrip during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period. The 97 Pfennig value is genuinely unusual — most German Notgeld issuers gravitated toward round denominations or simple fractions. Whether the figure was chosen to make change for a specific local fare or fee is unrecorded, but it was not arbitrary; these denominations were often calculated against tram tickets, market stalls, or utility payments.
Ernst Lange was a local Freiberg lithographer, so production never left the city. Haupt's signature as Oberbürgermeister gave the note its legal footing under municipal authority, not any banking institution.