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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Salzungen (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central vignette of the Sulzberger Krankenhaus (Sulzberger Hospital), a two-storey building set among trees and surmounted by a Red Cross emblem, flanked by two oval portrait medallions with dotted orange borders — a female figure at left and a male figure at right, both in period dress. Decorative salt-graduation tower vignettes appear at the lower lateral margins, with vine ornamentation filling the background field. The denomination '75 Pf.' appears in dark panels at upper left and right corners, and the lower band carries the inscription 'Sulzberger Krankenhaus' in ornate lettering with interlaced decorative borders. |
| Reverse lettering | Solbad Salzungen 75 PF. Sulzberger Krankenhaus Sulzberger Graben REINECK & KLEIN, WEIMAR |
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Bad Salzungen's 75 Pfennig Notgeld falls squarely within the wave of municipal emergency currency produced across Germany between 1919 and 1922, when chronic small-coin shortages forced hundreds of towns to issue their own paper. Reineck & Klein, based in Weimar, handled a substantial volume of Thuringian Notgeld commissions during this period — competent regional printers rather than prestige engravers, and the production quality reflects that.
Bad Salzungen had operated as a saltworks town for centuries, which is why so many local issuances from this municipality lean on that industrial identity. The 75 Pfennig denomination is the odd one of any set — typically paired with 25 and 50 to round out change coverage rather than carry any standalone economic logic.