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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Fürstenberg an der Weser |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Purple and yellow bicolour note with a cream header band at top carrying the title in ornate script. The central vignette consists of an oval cartouche with scroll and bead border enclosing a stylised cursive initial 'F' surmounted by a crown, flanked by the founding and anniversary years '1747' and '1922'. Large golden denomination numerals '75' appear at lower left and right, with 'Pfennig' in matching script between them. The lower white panel carries the redemption text, issue date, serial number in bold black type, and the manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fürstenberger Notgeld 1747 F 1922 75 Pfennig 75 Die Gemeindekasse zu Fürstenberg a.d. Weser löst diesen Schein ein. Er wird ungültig 3 Monate nach Aufkündigung. Fürstenberg, d. 1. Dezember 1921. Der Gemeindevorsteher: |
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Fürstenberg an der Weser is a small town in Lower Saxony best known as the location of the Rosenthal porcelain works — and that industrial identity almost certainly explains why a municipal cashier's office (Gemeindekasse, not a bank) felt entitled to issue its own emergency notes during the Kleingeldnot of 1920–1921. The nationwide small-change shortage gave thousands of German municipalities legal cover to print fractional currency, most of it unredeemed and quietly absorbed into collector hands rather than retired through any formal process.
The K. A. Weld designer credit is uncommon in Notgeld attribution and does not appear to correspond to a major commercial printing house — likely a local or regional commercial artist commissioned directly.