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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bitterfeld (City of Bitterfeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central vignette, identified at upper left as 'Bild 3', presenting a detailed interior view of a power station turbine hall rendered in precise letterpress line engraving: three massive generator sets on concrete plinths are shown in perspective within a glass-roofed industrial hall, with workers visible for scale. Decorative borders with geometric and heraldic devices — including a flaming eagle emblem at lower left and stylised lightning-bolt motifs at lower right — frame the composition. A caption panel below the vignette reads in italic script: 'Jährliche Stromerzeugung im Bitterfelder Revier: 1 200 000 000 Kilowattstunden.' |
| Reverse lettering | STROMERZEUGUNG Bild 3 Jährliche Stromerzeugung im Bitterfelder Revier: 1 200 000 000 Kilowattstunden. |
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Bitterfeld's 1921 Notgeld issues came during the peak of German municipal emergency currency production, when central government supply simply could not keep pace with the denominations demanded by a fractured, inflation-stricken economy. C. Schröter was a Leipzig commercial printer with no particular prestige in the Notgeld world — competent jobbing work, not a specialist firm like Giesecke & Devrient.
The DeNG 1#111.4 reference places this as the fourth denomination variant in the Bitterfeld series, suggesting the city issued at least a half-dozen distinct pieces across the 1920–1922 window. Bitterfeld's chemical industry made it an unusually prosperous issuer by regional standards, which may account for the relatively clean printing quality typical of Schröter's municipal contracts.