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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenwalde (Spree) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette carries the heraldic shield of Fürstenwalde, divided quarterly with black and red Brandenburg eagles, surmounted by a spread black eagle and a mural crown with oak branches, all rendered in multicolour letterpress. To the left and right, dark oval panels enclosed in laurel wreaths bear the inscriptions 'Gutschein der Stadt' and 'Fürstenwalde Spree' in white Gothic script, flanked by red floral corner ornaments. At lower left and right, red panels display the denomination numeral '75' in large Gothic type, while a central text box carries the conditions of acceptance, serial number '12419', year '1921', and a manuscript signature above the legend 'Der Magistrat'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Wer weiß, ob wir uns wiedersehn Am grünen Strand der Spree Gutschein der Stadt Fürstenwalde Spree 75 Diesen Gutschein wird an allen Städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen Er verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung Der Magistrat 1921 DRUCK: J. A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG I. ALLGÄU |
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Fürstenwalde an der Spree issued this 75 Pfennig Notgeld in 1921, well into the second wave of German municipal emergency currency that followed the severe coin shortages of the postwar years. By this point the Reichsbank had largely stabilized small-denomination coin supply, but many towns continued issuing collector-oriented Notgeld for the revenue it generated — municipalities sold series directly to philatelists and notaphilists, who were buying in volume and rarely spent them.
J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was one of the specialist printers who built their business almost entirely on this trade, producing runs for dozens of towns simultaneously from the same facility in Bavaria.