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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rudolstadt (City of Rudolstadt), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple and ochre on cream paper by letterpress, the obverse centres on a circular vignette bearing the Rudolstadt civic arms — a crowned rampant lion — enclosed within a lace-like ornamental border. Fraktur script across the upper field reads "Notgeld Rudolstadt", with "Schiller-Stätten" curving below the central vignette, while bell vignettes occupy the upper corners and denomination roundels reading "75 Pfennig" appear in purple at lower left and right. The lower lateral fields carry an authorization text dated "16. August 1921" with the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, and the printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | HEIDECKSBURG 75 Tausend fleißge Hände regen helfen sich in münterm Bund / und in feurigen Bewegen werden alle Kräfte künd. |
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Rudolstadt's 75 Pfennig Notgeld of 1921 was printed locally by Lorsch & Nachbar, a Rudolstadt printing house — an arrangement typical of the Notgeld period, when municipal authorities across Weimar Germany contracted whatever regional printer was available rather than waiting on overburdened national suppliers. The hyperinflationary pressures building through 1921 made even small denominations like this one a practical necessity, as metal coinage had effectively vanished from everyday commerce.
The DeNG reference suffix variation (.2-8/10) indicates this belongs to a numbered series of design variants issued under the same municipal authorization.