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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Medebach (City of Medebach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Medebach 75 Dieser Gutschein wird von der Stadtkasse Medebach in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung im Briloner Kreisblatt. Medebach, den 2. September 1921. Der Stadtvorstand: |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pfennig Hier ist ein ladender Kunst zuhaben Der Gott der Eisen wachsen lichs, Dai gass auf uns de Kleinkahn. Wai ainmol nieddegefahren is, Dai wört wuall laiwer te Faut gahn |
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Medebach is a small market town in the Sauerland, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities across Weimar Germany, it turned to notgeld in 1921 not out of genuine coin shortage — the acute wartime scarcity had largely passed — but because locally issued emergency notes had become a minor revenue stream. Towns sold sets to collectors, and the practice had evolved into something closer to civic souvenir production than emergency finance. F. W. Becker in Arnsberg was a regional printer well-positioned to service exactly this kind of municipal contract.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is mildly unusual — more commonly seen in the 25, 50, and 1 Mark runs of this period.