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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bitterfeld (City of Bitterfeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Central allegorical vignette in black letterpress shows a semi-draped female figure standing atop industrial machinery — representing electricity or industry — with arms raised amid radiating lightning bolts, flanked on the left by a seated chemist at laboratory apparatus and on the right by an engineer holding technical documents before an instrument panel; an industrial skyline with chimney stacks and power pylons fills the background. The upper cartouche carries the issuer inscription in bold Gothic lettering, while the denomination '75 PF' appears in large numerals at lower left and right. The lower panel records the issue date, serial number in green, validity clause, and two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat, with the printer's imprint below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic bird's-eye view vignette of open-cast brown coal mining operations in the Bitterfeld district, labelled 'Bild 1' at upper left, with railway wagons, excavation terraces, pit infrastructure and industrial buildings rendered in fine black line engraving. A decorative border frames the scene, with small corner vignettes depicting a flame at lower left and a stylised lightning-bolt motif at lower right. A three-line italic text panel below the central image records the coal output statistic for 1920. |
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Bitterfeld's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the dense wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Weimar Germany as coin shortages and inflation gutted the practical usefulness of Reichsbank notes for small transactions. Bitterfeld was already a significant chemical and lignite mining center by this point, and the city — like hundreds of others — simply printed its own fractional currency rather than wait for Berlin to solve a problem it couldn't.
C. Schröter of Leipzig was a workhorse printer for Saxony-region Notgeld, handling municipal contracts across the area during 1920–1922. Nothing in the record marks this particular issue as technically unusual.