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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ortelsburg (City of Ortelsburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Notgeld note is printed in green, red, and black on cream paper, with an ornate Art Nouveau-influenced border incorporating stylised oak branches and leaves on the lateral margins. At centre is the municipal coat of arms of Ortelsburg — a heraldic shield showing a leaping red stag before a stand of conifers on a green ground — set against a light guilloche underprint. The denomination "Fünfundsiebzig Pf." appears in red cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the issuing authority "Stadt Ortelsburg Masuren" inscribed across the top and validity and magistrate notices in Gothic blackletter script along the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Ortelsburg Masuren Fünfundsiebzig Pf. Fünfundsiebzig Pf. Herausgegeben zur Erinnerung an die Volksabstimmung 11. Juli 1920 Dieser Schein verliert einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntgabe seine Gültigkeit. Ortelsburg 11. Juli 1921 Der Magistrat FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.G. GLOGAU |
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Ortelsburg — now Szczytno in northeastern Poland — was a town at the center of one of the most closely watched plebiscites of the postwar settlement. In July 1920, under Allied supervision, the district voted overwhelmingly to remain with Germany rather than join the newly reconstituted Polish state. This notgeld followed from that outcome: a town asserting its Germanness through civic scrip at a moment when the question had only just been formally resolved.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau were among the more prolific notgeld printers of the period, handling municipal contracts from across the eastern provinces.