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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glauchau (City of Glauchau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned Notgeld note with a central letterpress vignette of the Glauchau city gate rendered in a flat Art Nouveau woodcut style, with the municipal coat of arms showing diagonal red and white stripes positioned at the upper left of the tower, a crescent moon to the right, and two lion supporters flanking the arched gateway. The denomination '75 Pfg.' is set in Gothic script within stylised lantern cartouches at left and right, with star ornaments at the corners. Parallel text blocks in Fraktur script at lower left and right state validity conditions, with the issue date 'Glauchau 1. Mai 1921', a serial number, and a printed official signature of the Stadtrat at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, black, and brown tones, the reverse bears stylised architectural lantern columns at left and right, each carrying the denomination '75' in Gothic numerals. The central field is occupied by a large silhouette vignette signed 'Jacob Kroder', executed in stark shadow-play style and portraying three figures — an adult, a child, and a robed authority figure pointing accusingly — in a humorous genre scene. A green border band at top and bottom carries a two-line Fraktur couplet referencing a 'Glauchaubub' (Glauchau lad), with the number '5' printed at the base of the central vignette. |
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Glauchau's 75 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 was printed in-house — the Ratsdruckerei was the city's own municipal press, meaning the issuing authority and the printer were effectively the same institution. This arrangement was common among mid-sized Saxon towns during the postwar small-change crisis, when centralized banking infrastructure had largely collapsed and municipalities scrambled to produce usable fractional currency on whatever equipment they had available.
The DeNG reference places this within the second subgroup of Glauchau's notgeld program, suggesting at least one earlier issue preceded it.