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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weimar (City of Weimar, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Weimar Pfennig 75 Weimar, den 1. August 1921 Der Gemeindevorstand / Oberbürgermeister Der Gemeinderat Vorsitzender Dieser Gutschein wird an allen Städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. |
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| Reverse lettering | Unmöglich wär's, die flüchtigen einzufassen: Mit Blitzeswink zerstreute sich's im Lauf. Die Wechslerbänke stehen sperrig auf: Man honoriert daselbst ein jedes Blatt Durch Gold und Silber, freilich mit Rabatt. |
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One of hundreds of municipal Notgeld issues produced across Germany during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s, this Weimar 75 Pfennig note was printed by a local press serving a local emergency. The Reichsbank could not supply small-denomination coinage fast enough for daily commerce, so towns simply printed their own. R. Borkmann was a Weimar-based printer with no particular numismatic fame — the press served the practical need, not the collector market, though many of these series were quickly absorbed by collectors almost immediately upon release.
The irony of Weimar specifically — seat of the National Assembly that ratified the constitution giving the republic its name — issuing emergency scrip in 1921 is not lost on anyone familiar with the period.