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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Dorfgemeinde Oppurg (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD D. DORFGEMEINDE OPPURG 75 PFG Oppurg, 1. Aug. 1921 ERLISCHT VIER WOCHEN NACH ORTSÜBLICHER BEKANNTGABE GEMEINDE-VORSTAND. GEMEINDERATS-VORSITZENDER. TAGEBLATTDRUCKEREI, PÖSSNECK |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Auerhahn wird dann erlegt, wenn er vor Liebe balzt...! Schlossturm aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. |
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Oppurg is a small village in the Saale-Orla district, and like hundreds of similarly sized Thuringian communities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — not from any banking authority but from the municipal government itself, with the Gemeindevorstand and the chairman of the council signing off directly. The Tageblattdruckerei in nearby Pössneck was the obvious choice: a regional newspaper press already equipped to produce small-run, locally relevant printed material cheaply and quickly.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is characteristic of the later "Serienscheine" phase, when Notgeld shifted from genuine monetary necessity toward collectible series designed to generate revenue through philatelic demand.