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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreuzburg (Upper Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is tripartite in composition: the left panel presents a vignette of Freytags Geburtshaus (Gustav Freytag's birthplace), the central oval vignette carries a bust portrait of Gustav Freytag in three-quarter view, and the right panel shows the Evangelische Kirche (Evangelical Church) of Kreuzburg. A text panel along the lower portion bears a quotation from Freytag's memoirs in Gothic script, with the denomination '75 Pf' in the upper corners and the D.R.G.M. design registration number below. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 Pf Freytags Geburtshaus Gustav Freytag geb. am 13. Juli 1816 in Kreuzburg Evangelische Kirche "Als Kind der Grenze lernte ich früh mein deutsches Wesen gegenüber fremdem Volkstum lieben, als Preuße wuchs ich in einem Staat auf, in dem die Hingabe des Einzelnen an das Vaterland selbstverständlich war" (Gustav Freytag Erinnerungen) D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Kreuzburg's 75 Pfennig Notgeld appeared during the plebiscite period in Upper Silesia, when the League of Nations was still arbitrating whether the region would go to Germany or Poland. The outcome — and with it, the legal standing of locally issued emergency currency — was genuinely uncertain at the time these notes circulated.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau was one of the more active Notgeld printers of the early 1920s, handling commissions from numerous Silesian municipalities simultaneously. Glogau itself would later become Głogów under Polish administration, though it remained German at the time of printing.