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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Freiberg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and black letterpress print on beige paper stock. A central vignette presents the Freiberg municipal crest flanked by two miners in traditional working dress, the composition enclosed within a decorative border carrying a continuous mining rhyme. This is the third note in a set of eight 75 Pfennig Gutschein issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | Einfahrt. Schon angezünd`t! das gibt sei- nen Schein, und damit nun fahren wir bei der Nacht in`s Bergwerk ein. Lith. Anst. Ernst Lange, Freiberg (Translation: Entrance. Already ignited! This creates the glow and therewith we ride at night into the mine.) |
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Freiberg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency, produced well after the acute postwar shortages of 1918–19 but before hyperinflation made small-denomination paper meaningless. By 1921, many towns were issuing Notgeld as much for collector revenue as genuine necessity — the so-called "Serienscheine" phenomenon — and local printers like Ernst Lange were contracted directly by municipal treasuries to keep production costs and turnaround times low.
Freiberg, Saxony's historic silver-mining center, had the Lange firm on its doorstep, which made local printing an obvious choice over contracting a Leipzig or Dresden house.