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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rudolstadt (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in purple and ochre on cream paper, with the bold blackletter inscription 'Notgeld Rudolstadt' arching across the upper field and 'Schiller-Stätten' across the lower. A central circular vignette bears the crowned rampant lion of Rudolstadt's civic arms, flanked on either side by smaller circular vignettes each containing a bell; the denomination '75 Pfennig' appears in purple roundels at the lower left and right corners. The date 'Der Stadtrat Rudolstadt, 16. August 1921' is inscribed to the left, with a facsimile mayoral signature 'Der Bürgermeister' to the right, and the serial number is printed in black at the foot. |
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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 a product of the nationwide small-denomination coin shortage that followed the First World War — municipal and commercial issuers across Germany flooded the market with locally printed emergency scrip between 1919 and 1923. Lorsch & Nachbar, a local Rudolstadt printer, handled this 75 Pfennig piece entirely in-house, making it one of the rarer cases where the issuing city and the press occupied the same town.
The DeNG reference places it precisely within a numbered subseries, suggesting multiple design variants exist for the same denomination — collectors should verify the specific vignette against the 1146.2-6/10 listing before cataloging.