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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Triebes, Städtische Sparkasse Triebes |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and teal on a cream ground, with a decorative art nouveau border of stylised foliage and radiating fan motifs. At the centre, an oval cartouche bears the issuer's name in bold letterpress above the date TRIEBES, DEN 1. OKTOBER 1921 and two manuscript signatures of the Sparkassenverwaltung. Four circular vignettes at the corners and midpoints contain local emblems — a gateway with trees, a seated figure, a carpenter's plane, and a beehive — alluding to the town's civic and craft identity. The denomination numeral 75 appears in large bold type at upper left and upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large allegorical vignette in brown and teal, rendered in a bold illustrative style, showing two classically draped female figures flanking a heraldic shield bearing the denomination 75 Pf in teal script. The left figure rests against a cogwheel and holds a hammer, personifying industry, while the right figure holds a caduceus, representing commerce. The inscription around the border commemorates the Triebes Industrie- und Gewerbe-Ausstellung (Industry and Trade Exhibition) with the dates 25.–30. Oktober 1921. |
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Triebes is a small industrial town in Thuringia, and its 1921 Notgeld issue was one of hundreds produced by German municipalities scrambling to cover a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage in the postwar years. The Städtische Sparkasse — the municipal savings bank — acted as the issuing authority rather than a private commercial bank, which was common for smaller communities that lacked a local branch of any major institution.
Otto Henning A.G. in nearby Greiz was a regional printer that handled Notgeld commissions for several Thuringian towns during this period. Proximity mattered: short print runs, tight deadlines, and local distribution made a regional press far more practical than contracting Leipzig or Berlin firms.