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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Gernrode im Harz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 91.5 × 62.3 mm |
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| Obverse description | Three-panel vignette composition in blue and red on a cream ground, enclosed within a ruled border with corner denomination cartouches reading '75 Pfennig'. The left panel presents the Romanesque main portal (Hauptportal) of the Stiftskirche St. Cyriaci with its characteristic carved stonework and red double doors; the central arch frames an elevated view of the collegiate church from the east ('Die Stiftskirche St. Cyriaci v. Osten'); the right panel illustrates the tomb monument of Otto I and the 1519 Kitlitz foundation ('Grabmal Ottos – Stiftung derer von Kitlitz 1519'). Below the vignettes, the date '21. Oktober 1921', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' with a manuscript facsimile signature, and a serial number appear, with the printer attribution reading 'Louis Koch – Halberstadt' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein der Stadt Gernrode-Harz 75 Pfennig Hauptportal i. R.O. m. Wappen Ottos Die Stiftskirche St. Cyriaci v. Osten Grabmal Ottos – Stiftung derer von Kitlitz 1519 Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung. Gernrode-Harz, 21. Oktober 1921 Der Magistrat Nach Originalen von Carl Müting – Buch- u. Kunstverlag, Gernrode-Harz |
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Gernrode's 1921 Notgeld issue was designed by Carl Müting and printed locally by Louis Koch in Halberstadt — a fairly typical small-town emergency currency arrangement from the inflation years, when German municipalities were legally permitted to issue their own fractional notes to compensate for a catastrophic shortage of official small-denomination coinage. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand, and towns like Gernrode filled the gap themselves.
Koch was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which occasionally shows in the registration on surviving examples.