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| Issuer | Stadt Meiningen (City of Meiningen), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Franz Scheiner, Würzburg, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Meiningen Dieser Schein wird von der Stadtkämmerei und der städtischen Sparkasse in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb zweier Monate nach der öffentlichen Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. 21. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat Oberbürgermeister 75 Pfg. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pf. "Jont is niß meä uhmüglich" Alte Marktschule abg. 1848. Franz Scheiner, Würzburg |
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Meiningen's 1921 notgeld series was designed by G. Lilie and printed by Franz Scheiner in Würzburg — an arrangement typical of the period, when municipalities across Thuringia contracted Bavarian printers rather than rely on overtaxed local presses. The 75 Pfennig denomination sits in the middle tier of what was almost certainly a multi-value emergency issue, produced as coin shortages made small-denomination transactions genuinely difficult in the postwar inflationary slide.
Meiningen had a long association with the arts — the court theater there was historically significant — but that reputation had little bearing on the functional urgency of getting these notes into local commerce.