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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Freiberg (City of Freiberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | Brown and black letterpress print on beige paper. The reverse carries a vignette illustrating the beginning of a mining shift, rendered in a narrative illustrative style typical of Weimar-era Notgeld artwork. An accompanying rhyming verse is set within the decorative frame, forming part 2 of the eight-note series. |
| Reverse lettering | Anstellung. Glück auf! Glück auf! Der Steiger kommt, und er hat sein Grubenlicht bei der Nacht schon ange- zünd`t. (Translation: Work. Good luck! Good luck! The climber is coming and he has his mining lamp already ignited for the night.) |
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Freiberg's Notgeld issues of 1921 draw directly on the city's silver mining identity — Freiberg had been the center of Saxon silver production since the twelfth century, and the municipal treasury leaned hard into that iconography during the postwar emergency currency period. The Ernst Lange printing house was a local operation, which kept production costs low but also means quality control across the series varies noticeably; ink saturation and impression depth differ between print runs even within the same denomination.
The 4b-2/8 suffix in the DeNG reference indicates a specific plate variant within the broader 379 series — these sub-variants are frequently conflated by generalist collectors but matter considerably to specialists assembling complete Freiberg runs.