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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Meiningen (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
| Protection description | Circular embossed dry seal of the City of Meiningen applied to the obverse left field. |
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Meiningen's 1921 Notgeld series belongs to the middle phase of German municipal emergency currency, when town councils had largely abandoned plain wartime utility and begun commissioning artistically ambitious designs — partly as civic pride, partly because collectable Notgeld was generating real income through philatelic sales rather than actual commerce. Franz Scheiner in Würzburg was a competent regional printer who handled a number of Thuringian commissions during this period.
The embossed seal was the city's primary authentication device, a low-tech but legally defensible anti-counterfeiting measure given that professional engraving was beyond most forgers working at municipal scale in 1921.