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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eckartsberga (City of Eckartsberga) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Circular Notgeld note printed in black on cream paper, with the large numeral '75' set within a double-ringed central vignette, below which the denomination 'Pfennig' appears in Gothic Fraktur script. An oak-leaf wreath frames the inner circle, while the outer border band carries the issuer legend in Fraktur. A ribbon cartouche at the lower centre bears the validity clause and date in three lines, with the printer's imprint at the very base. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Eckartsberga 75 Pfennig Gültig bis ein Monat nach ortsübl. Aufkündigung Eckartsberga d. 1.9.21 Der Magistrat Reineck & Klein, Weimar |
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Eckartsberga is a small Thuringian town — population under two thousand even in the early twentieth century — which makes its participation in the Notgeld phenomenon entirely unremarkable statistically, but the choice of Reineck & Klein in Weimar as printer is worth noting. That firm produced Notgeld for dozens of small Saxon and Thuringian municipalities during the 1921 inflationary wave, and their output is identifiable by consistent letterpress register quality that holds up better than many competing regional printers of the period.
The 75 Pfennig denomination was among the more common fractional values issued as Germany's wartime coin shortages persisted well into the early Republic.