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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Geldern (City of Geldern) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | DRACHENGELD Stadt Geldern Geldern, den 4. November 1921 der Bürgermeister die Städtische Sparkasse in Geldern zahle gegen diese Anweisung zu Lasten des Ersatzgeldkontos der Stadtgemeinde 75 Pfennig 75 Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce, Künstlerdruck, Glauchau (Sachs.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is enclosed by decorative borders of green foliage and cornucopias at left and right, each incorporating a shield bearing the denomination numeral 75 in gold. The central vignette, executed as a bold silhouette composition signed by the artist Schlemetzien, illustrates the local Geldern dragon legend: a winged dragon swoops across the sky above a village silhouette and a medieval tower, while a figure armed with a pitchfork confronts the beast at lower left. The scene is framed above and below by couplets in Low German dialect. |
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Geldern's 1921 Notgeld series was among hundreds issued by German municipalities scrambling to cover the chronic small-change shortage that followed the First World War — Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from circulation as metal values outpaced face values. The Stadt Geldern contracted Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, Saxony, a printer active across multiple regional Notgeld commissions during this period, rather than using a local press.
The DeNG reference 1/2#416.1-6/8 indicates this note belongs to a numbered variant run of at least eight types within the series — collectors have long distinguished these by minor typographic and color differences across the individual values.