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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Mücheln, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in dark brown and green on buff paper, with a bold perforated-style border framing the entire composition. A central octagonal vignette contains a full-length figure of St. Jacobus (Saint James) in pilgrim's robes, holding a staff in his left hand and a bowl in his right, encircled by the legend 'ST. JACOBUS' above and 'SIGIL. DER STADT. MÜCHELN' below, with the date '1642' flanking the figure. The denomination '75 PFENNIG' appears in large bold numerals on both the left and right panels, with the issue date 'AUSGEGEBEN AM 1. JULI 1921' on the left and the issuing authority 'DER MAGISTRAT' with a manuscript signature on the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN · DER · STADT · MÜCHELN ST. · JACOBUS · SIGIL · DER · STADT · MÜCHELN 75 PFENNIG AUSGEGEBEN AM 1. JULI 1921 DER MAGISTRAT 1642 VERLIERT · SEINE · GÜLTIGKEIT · 1 · MONAT · NACH · ABRUF · Adolf Forker, Leipzig. |
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Mücheln, a small town in the Saale district of Saxony, issued this note during the Kleingeldschein period — the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany between 1918 and 1922 as coin shortages made everyday commerce nearly impossible. The 75 Pfennig denomination is one of five notes in the 0902 series, all printed by Adolf Forker of Leipzig, a commercial printer who handled a significant volume of Notgeld work for Saxon municipalities during this period.
Forker was not a specialist security printer, which is worth noting — these notes carry no sophisticated anti-counterfeiting features beyond the issuing authority's printed authorization.