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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neustadt an der Orla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of the town's colourful coat of arms — a gold castle with red merlons over a blue field, framed within a Gothic pointed arch with stained-glass window styling. The denomination '75 Pfg' appears in red on a yellow sunburst cartouche in the upper left. Below the arch, two panels carry guild emblems: at left a 'Gerber' (tanner) vignette with two lion supporters and a barrel, at right a 'Tuchmacher' (cloth-maker) vignette with crossed tools. The issuing authority, date 'Neustadt a.d. Orla, 1. Juli 1921', and a facsimile mayoral signature above the title 'Bürgermeister' appear at the top, with validity and revocation clauses printed vertically at right. The printer's imprint 'Druck: Johannes Arndt, Jena' runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pfg Das Gotische Rathaus zu Erfurt Druck: Johannes Arndt Jena |
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Neustadt an der Orla was a small Thuringian textile town, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld during 1921 as the Reichsbank's coin supply remained chronically inadequate for everyday transactions. Johannes Arndt in Jena was a regional printer that handled a number of these small-town emergency issues — reliable and local, but not among the prestige houses like Giesecke & Devrient that produced the more elaborate collector-targeted series flooding the market that same year.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual; most municipal issues clustered around 25, 50, and 10 Pfennig values, suggesting a specific local pricing need drove the choice.