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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Querfurt (City of Querfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | J. Adolf Schwarz, Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a woodcut-style view of Querfurt Castle with its distinctive round tower and adjacent church steeple set against a green landscape with stylised clouds. The denomination '75 PF.' is printed in large Gothic script below the vignette, flanked on the left and right margins by vertical text reading 'Gutschein über Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig' in red Gothic lettering on a cream ground. A decorative dashed border frames the entire composition, with the printer's imprint 'DRUCK: J.A. SCHWARZ LINDENBERG I/ALLGÄU' appearing in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig 75 PF. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufforderung in den hiesigen Blättern. Querfurt, 24. August 1921 Der Magistrat: [Unterschrift] Bürgermeister DRUCK: J.A. SCHWARZ LINDENBERG I/ALLGÄU |
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Querfurt is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its 1921 notgeld issue is typical of the municipal scrip flood that followed Germany's postwar coin shortage. What lifts it slightly above the generic is the printer: J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a specialist notgeld house in the Bavarian Allgäu region that supplied hundreds of German municipalities during 1920–1922, often producing short runs on relatively thin paper stock that aged poorly in circulation.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is worth noting — an odd value that suggests this was part of a multi-denomination set designed to cover specific change gaps rather than issued as a standalone piece.