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100 Pfennig Mitteldeutsche Notgeldausstellung
| Issuer | City of Erfurt |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned note with a large circular vignette at centre top, containing the bold numeral '100' above the abbreviation 'Pf.' in white lettering on a dark ground, framed by concentric ring borders. Below the vignette, a multi-line payment text in Gothic-style letterpress script references the Mitteldeutsche Notgeldausstellung und Messe in Erfurt, dated 13–15 Mai 1922. Two manuscript facsimile signatures appear at the lower portion, with the printer's imprint 'Otto Richters u. Co., Erfurt' at the very foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 Pf. zahlten Sie für diesen Erinnerungsschein anläßlich der Mitteldeutschen Notgeldausstellung u. Messe in Erfurt am 13-15. Mai 1922. OTTO RICHTERS U. CO, ERFURT. |
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Erfurt's 1922 Notgeld series was issued specifically to accompany the Mitteldeutsche Notgeldausstellung — a dedicated exhibition celebrating emergency currency as a collecting phenomenon. By 1922, Serienscheine of this type were being produced almost entirely for philatelic and numismatic collectors rather than for any genuine monetary purpose, and the issuers knew it. The economics of inflation-era Germany had made actual 100-Pfennig transactions nearly meaningless; the real transaction was the sale of the note itself.
Robert Sandrock was a Leipzig-based graphic artist whose work appeared across multiple Saxon and Thuringian Notgeld series during this period.