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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rudolstadt (City of Rudolstadt), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Lorsch & Nachbar, Buchdruckerei, Rudolstadt, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in pink-rose and ochre on cream paper, with a central circular vignette containing the crowned rampant lion of Rudolstadt's civic arms. Bold Fraktur lettering arcs across the upper half reading 'Notgeld Rudolstadt' and across the lower centre 'Schiller-Stätten', flanked by the denominations '75 Pfennig' in pink roundels at lower left and right, each surrounded by foliate guilloche ornament. Bell vignettes appear in pink roundels at the upper corners, and a manuscript authorisation inscription with the date '16. August 1921' and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appear at centre left and right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Rudolstadt Schiller-Stätten 75 Pfennig Der Stadtrat Rudolstadt 16. August 1921 Der Bürgermeister Entwurf u. Druck durch Lorsch & Nachbar, Buchdruckerei, Rudolstadt. |
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Rudolstadt's 1921 notgeld series was one of hundreds of municipal emergency currency issues printed across Thuringia as Germany's postwar coin shortage reached its worst point. The 75-Pfennig denomination is somewhat unusual for municipal notgeld — most cities defaulted to rounder values like 50 or 25 — suggesting the city was calibrating denominations to specific local pricing needs rather than following a standard template.
Lorsch & Nachbar were a local Rudolstadt printing firm, not a specialist security printer, which was entirely typical for notgeld production. The inflationary spiral that would render all such issues worthless was already well underway by the time these notes circulated.