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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kallies (City of Kallies) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 2 February 1924 |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted letterpress note with the denomination '75' set in circular cartouches at the upper left and right corners. A central heraldic shield vignette bears an eagle above a horizontal bar, flanked by two stanzas of verse in Gothic blackletter script referencing the Schleifmühle (grinding mill) of Kallies. The serial number, issuer name 'Stadt Kallies,' date '1. Februar 1921,' and three manuscript signatures appear in the lower field, with the validity expiry legend 'Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 2. Februar 1924.' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Kallies "Hie wat de Fläz abschleipa" RATS-DRUCKEREI R. DULCE, GLAUCHAU I. SA. |
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Kallies was a small town in Pomerania — today Kalisz Pomorski in northwestern Poland — and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued notgeld in 1921 to address the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well after the armistice. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a regional municipal printer that handled notgeld contracts for multiple local authorities during this period, which means the printing quality is competent but unsophisticated.
Kallies issued relatively small quantities, and the town's postwar administrative records were largely lost after 1945, making precise mintage figures unrecoverable.