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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Frose, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | W. Dockhorn |
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| Reverse description | Light-toned reverse with a decorative border of red roses and green foliage enclosing a scroll-format vignette at centre, within which a silhouetted townscape of Frose is shown beneath a rising sun, inscribed '936–1936'. Flanking the central vignette are two columns listing historical name variants of Frose with corresponding dates from 936 to 1200, while the denomination '75 Pfg.' appears in red at upper left and right of the vignette. A bold Gothic inscription runs along the top reading 'Die Namen berichten von Freud' und Leid' and a poetic motto is printed along the lower margin; the designer's signature 'W. Dockhorn' appears at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Namen berichten von Freud' und Leid 75 Pfg. Vraso: 936 Frasa: 950 Fruosa: 961 Vrosa: 961 Frosa: 1000 Frasu: 1000 Fraso: 1049 Vroso: 1149 Wrose: 1188 Frose: seit 1200 936–1936 Blüh', Frose, dir ferner nur Rosenzeit! W. Dockhorn |
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Frose is a small village in the Anhalt region, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued post-WWI commerce. The Reichsbank simply could not keep low-denomination coins in circulation fast enough as inflation accelerated. Municipal Notgeld filled that gap — briefly, officially tolerated, and then swept away by the hyperinflationary collapse that made all of it worthless within two years.
Dockhorn's credit is the one distinguishing detail here. Local Notgeld designers are rarely documented at all.