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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Finsterwalde (City of Finsterwalde) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 106 × 73 mm |
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| Obverse description | The note presents a panoramic vignette of the Finsterwalde townscape in muted blue-grey tones, with church towers visible on either flank. Centre field bears the municipal coat of arms — a fortified gate flanked by topiary trees — set within a cartouche of Gothic lettering recording the validity clause and issuing authority. The denomination numeral '75' in bold red appears at lower left within a scrolled cartouche, mirrored by the Pfennig symbol at right, while a lower panel carries the issuer inscription in capital letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | VORSTEHENDEN BETRAG ZAHLT UNSRE STADTHAUPT-KASSE DEM EINLIEFERER DIESES SCHEINES GÜLTIGKEIT BIS 1 MONAT NACH ERFOLGTEM WIDERRUF DURCH ORTSÜBLICHE BEKANNTMACHUNG Finsterwalde im Juli 1921 Der Magistrat NOTGELD DER STADT FINSTERWALDE 75 |
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Finsterwalde's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the so-called "Serienscheine" phase, when towns discovered that collectors would pay face value for attractively designed small notes, turning a fiscal necessity into a minor revenue stream. The city leaned into this aggressively, commissioning E. Jonetsky for the artwork rather than defaulting to a printer's stock design.
Jonetsky is a relatively obscure figure in Notgeld design — the name appears across a handful of issues from this period but has left no substantial biographical record.