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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Fürstenwalde, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is a richly coloured letterpress composition centred on the heraldic shield of Fürstenwalde/Spree, divided per pale and surmounted by a fortified town gate with a spread eagle above a large oak tree whose roots intertwine with the lower shield. Flanking the central vignette are two dark oval medallions encircled by laurel-and-flower wreaths, the left inscribed 'Gutschein der Stadt' and the right 'Fürstenwalde Spree', with the denomination numeral '75' in red cartouches at the lower corners. A text panel along the lower margin carries the circulation notice, serial number, date '1921', and a manuscript signature of Der Magistrat, with the printer's imprint 'DRUCK: J.A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG I. ALLGÄU' below the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Wer weiß, ob wir uns wiedersehn Am grünen Strand der Spree Gutschein der Stadt Fürstenwalde Spree Dieser Gutschein wird an allen Städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Der Magistrat 75 DRUCK: J.A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG i. ALLGÄU |
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Fürstenwalde's 1921 Notgeld issue was part of the broader small-change crisis that followed WWI, when coin metal was hoarded and municipal authorities across Germany were authorized to print their own emergency fractional currency. J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a prolific printer of such issues — the firm supplied dozens of Bavarian and Brandenburg municipalities during this period, which means collector-oriented production was almost certainly a factor here alongside genuine circulation need.
The 75-Pfennig denomination is among the more practical fractional values of the inflation Notgeld wave, sitting just below the one-Mark threshold that most issuers treated differently.