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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Glauchau, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Tan-brown ground with a central vignette of the medieval gatehouse of Glauchau, rendered in brown and green, surmounted by the city arms — diagonal red and white stripes — and a crescent moon to the right, with small flags atop the tower. Flanking the central vignette are two stylised lanterns in black, each bearing the denomination numeral '75' in red Gothic script above 'Pfg.' A six-pointed star motif is repeated across the field. Validity and acceptance text appears in Gothic blackletter script to the lower left and right, with the date 'Glauchau, 1 Mai 1921' and a serial number in a white panel at the bottom centre. |
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| Reverse description | Cream ground with a central rectangular vignette in black silhouette style, signed in the upper left corner by the artist, showing a procession of four caricatured figures in animated poses suggestive of intoxication, rendered in bold flat black. The border is green with brown stylised church-tower motifs at left and right, each incorporating the denomination '75' in Gothic script on a green panel. A humorous rhyming couplet in Gothic blackletter runs across the top and bottom margins of the composition. The numeral '3' appears beneath the central vignette, indicating a series variant. |
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Glauchau's municipal administration printed this note in-house through its own Ratsdruckerei — the council's printing office — which was common among Saxony's smaller industrial towns during the Notgeld inflation period but gives this issue an unusually local character. R. Dulce operated under direct civic oversight, meaning quality control and paper sourcing were municipal decisions rather than commercial ones.
The 75 Pfennig denomination was a practical workaround for the chronic small-change shortage of 1921, before hyperinflation made such fractional distinctions irrelevant within two years.