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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre central field framed by a green and brown border with the denomination numeral 75 in each corner. At centre top, the municipal coat of arms of Pößneck — a blue shield bearing a black rampant lion surmounted by a mural crown — is set within an elaborate interlaced green foliate guilloche. Below, the issuer name STADT PÖSSNECK in large bold letterpress is followed by the word NOTGELD, with the large numeral 75 Pf. centred in the lower field flanked by two cartouches containing the validity clause and the facsimile signatures of the Magistrat und Gemeinderat. The printer's imprint reads Druck von Johannes Arndt, Jena. |
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| Reverse description | Dark-toned reverse with a predominantly black background and green ribbon-pattern side borders, the denomination numeral 75 appearing in each corner. A central oval vignette with a light blue ground presents a detailed view of the Rathausgiebel (Town Hall gable) of Pößneck, its stepped Gothic façade rendered in brown and red. Below the vignette, the municipal coat of arms — black lion on blue shield with red foliate scrollwork — is captioned RATHAUSGIEBEL. A verse in Gothic script runs along all four margins, printed sideways and inverted on the bottom border. The printer's imprint appears at the foot: Druck: Johannes Arndt, Jena. |
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Pößneck was a small Thuringian textile town with no particular monetary history to speak of, which makes its 1921 notgeld program entirely typical of the period — local governments across Germany were printing their own emergency fractional currency as the Reichsbank failed to supply adequate coinage during the post-war inflation spiral. The Stadt commissioned Johannes Arndt Druckerei in Jena, a regional commercial press rather than a specialist security printer, with design credited to a "Rohde, Jena" who appears across several Thuringian notgeld issues of the same year but remains otherwise unidentified in the philatelic record.
The 113 × 75 mm format was on the larger end for 75 Pfennig issues, giving the designer room to work.