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| Issuer | Eckartsberga, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Eckartsberga 75 Pfennig Gültig bis ein Monat nach ortsübl. Aufkündigung Eckartsberga d.1.9.21 Der Magistrat. Reineck & Klein, Weimar |
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| Reverse lettering | Wir sind nicht auf dieser Welt um zu genießen, sondern um unsern Schuldigreit zu tun. F.B. |
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Eckartsberga is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The Reineck & Klein firm in Weimar handled a substantial volume of this municipal emergency currency work during the period, supplying local authorities across Thuringia and surrounding regions who lacked any direct relationship with major printing houses.
Eckartsberga's series is not among the more widely documented provincial issues, and surviving examples tend to surface in bulk lots rather than as individual collector pieces — reflecting how these notes were often saved in complete sets by contemporaries rather than spent.