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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glauchau (City of Glauchau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0436.2-6/6 |
| Obverse description | Tan-brown ground with a central vignette of the Glauchau city gate rendered in brown, green, and red, surmounted by a crenellated tower flying two small flags and flanked by a crescent moon and the city coat of arms on a green field. Two stylised street lanterns in black, each bearing the denomination '75' in red Gothic numerals, anchor the left and right margins. Validity and acceptance clauses appear in Gothic script at lower left and lower right, with the serial number printed in black at the foot of the gate arch. |
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| Reverse lettering | trank den kleinen Inhalt des Glases leer und rettete Stadt Glauchau's Ehr 6 |
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Glauchau's 75 Pfennig Notgeld from 1921 was issued at the height of Germany's postwar small-change crisis, when coin metal was being hoarded and municipal authorities across Saxony were left to plug the gap themselves. The Ratsdruckerei — literally the town council's own print shop — handling production locally was not unusual for Saxony, but it does mean quality and consistency varied run to run, and the reference suffix "6/6" suggests this is the final note in a six-piece series.
The suffix structure in the DeNG catalog designation points to a matched set, and collectors targeting complete runs of the Glauchau issue will find the later pieces harder to source than the first two or three.