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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Gebesee (City of Gebesee) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large woodcut-style genre scene in purple-brown on cream, showing three robed figures — identifiable as clergy or monks — gathered around a tall vessel, with ribbon scrolls labelled 'Dachwig.', 'Gebesee.' and 'Herbeleben.' woven among them, referencing the surrounding villages at a historical boundary inspection (Hegemal). Below the vignette, a decorative cartouche bears a four-line verse in gothic script, and the artist's imprint 'R. Hanf-Erfurt' appears at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Dachwig. Gebesee. Herbeleben. Beim Hegemal von altersher, / wenn alle Grenzen stimmten fein, / da freuten sich die Pfäfflein sehr, / Sie tranken dann am Pfaffenstein. R. Hanf-Erfurt |
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Gebesee is a small town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it turned to notgeld in 1921 as postwar inflation made centrally issued coinage effectively worthless in small transactions. The Kirchner print shop in Erfurt handled a significant volume of Thuringian municipal notgeld during this period, and the offset lithography process it used was well-suited to the short runs and decorative ambitions that characterize the later "collector notgeld" wave — notes produced as much for the philatelic market as for actual use.
The six or seven variants catalogued under DeNG 12#410.1-6/7 suggest a deliberate series, typical of municipalities that recognized revenue could be raised through collector demand rather than circulation alone.