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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Jena (Universitätsstadt Jena), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 80 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue and yellow-green letterpress Notgeld note with a large multi-pointed starburst vignette at centre, within which a yellow circular medallion carries a spread-eagle underprint overlaid by the bold Gothic numeral '75' and the Pfennig symbol. The heading 'Notgeld der Universitätsstadt Jena' is set in black Fraktur script across the top. Lower left carries a validity clause in four lines, the date 'Jena, 1. Mai – 1921' appears at bottom centre, and the right side bears a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister alongside a second signature of the Vorsitzender of the Gemeinderat; the printer's imprint 'Ant. Kämpfe-Jena' is printed below the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Universitätsstadt Jena 75 DIE GÜLTIGKEIT ERLISCHT 3 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHEM AUFRUF JENA, 1. MAI – 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND OBERBÜRGERMEISTER DER GEMEINDERAT! – VORSITZENDER – Ant. Kämpfe-Jena |
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Jena's 1921 Notgeld series was among the more deliberately collectible issues of the inflationary period — the city, trading heavily on its identity as a university town, produced notes aimed as much at the philatelic market as at actual small-change relief. Ant. Kämpfe was a local Jena printer with no particular prestige in the banknote world, which is precisely why the municipality used them: Notgeld issuers at this level were simply contracting whoever was nearby and available.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is the awkward middle value of most three-note Notgeld sets from this period, typically the scarcest of the trio in circulated condition because it saw the least transactional use.