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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenwalde (Spree) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Wer weiß, ob wir uns wiedersehn Am grünen Strand der Spree Gutschein der Stadt Fürstenwalde Spree 75 Diesen Gutschein wird an allen Städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Der Magistrat 1921 DRUCK: J. A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG I. ALLGÄU |
| Reverse description | A bold expressionist vignette in dark purple and yellow-green fills the central panel, representing a stylised leaping lion silhouetted against a nocturnal townscape with church spires, with the year '1528' inscribed below the figure and an artist's monogram at lower right. Vertical side panels in cream carry the denomination 'Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig' in Gothic red script, flanked by decorative oak-leaf motifs at top and bottom. A caption at the foot of the central panel recounts the historical episode in Gothic script. |
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Fürstenwalde's 1921 Notgeld issue is typical of the Bavarian printing boom that fed municipal emergency currency across Germany during the hyperinflationary slide of the early Weimar years. J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu was one of several small regional printers who built a secondary business almost entirely on Notgeld contracts — the firm handled orders from municipalities far outside Bavaria, with Fürstenwalde sitting roughly 700 kilometers northeast of the press that produced its money.
Collectors should note the geographic disjunction: nothing about this note's production was local to Brandenburg.