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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weimar (City of Weimar, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld issue printed in red and dark brown letterpress, with the Gothic-script title 'Gutschein der Stadt Weimar' spanning the upper margin. A central oval vignette, set within a deep red rectangular panel, presents a classical allegorical scene of a youth astride a rearing goat rendered in fine line work, flanked on both lateral margins by the denomination '75 Pfennig' in large red numerals with foliate ornamental surrounds. The lower portion carries the issue date 'Weimar, den 1. August 1921', a red serial number, two manuscript signatures of civic officials, and the printer's imprint 'R. Borkmann Weimar' alongside the redemption clause in Gothic script. |
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| Reverse description | Cream field enclosed by a single red rule border, dominated by a full-width woodcut-style vignette in dark brown illustrating a lively medieval market scene with figures of tradespeople and revellers in the foreground — including a butcher at work — and a tavern gathering visible in the background. Beneath the vignette, a two-line verse caption in Gothic script runs the full width of the note. |
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Weimar notgeld from 1921 occupies a peculiar niche in German emergency currency. By that point the practical necessity for small-denomination notgeld had largely passed — the original coin shortage that drove municipalities to print their own fractional notes from 1916 onward had eased — yet cities continued issuing collectible series, openly targeting the philatelic and notgeld collector market that had exploded across Germany. Whether this piece was ever intended to circulate seriously is doubtful.
R. Borkmann was a local Weimar printer, not a specialist currency house, which was entirely normal for municipal notgeld of this type.