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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Gera (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GERA-REUSS GERA-R 75 PF WIRD VON ALLEN STADTKASSEN IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN DER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 1. APRIL 1922 GERA AM 1. 5. 1921 DER STADTRAT (Translation: Gera-Reuss Gera-R 75 pfennigs IS ACCEPTED FOR PAYMENT BY ALL CITY TREASURIES THE NOTE CEASES TO BE VALID ON 1 APRIL 1922 GERA, 1 MAY 1921 THE CITY COUNCIL) |
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| Reverse lettering | GELITTEN·RAUB·UND·BRAND IN·FRUEHESTER·ZEIT 75 PF KARL SCHNEIDER ERFURT (Translation: SUFFERED ROBBERY AND FIRE IN EARLIEST TIMES) |
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Gera was one of the more prolific Notgeld issuers in Thuringia, and the 1921 municipal series reflects the period when cities were printing scrip not from genuine emergency but because local authorities had realized collectors would buy them outright. Karl Schneider's involvement as designer places this note squarely in the artistic Notgeld movement — a cottage industry by 1921, with municipalities commissioning work from named artists to drive philatelic demand as much as local liquidity.
The watermarked paper distinguishes this from the cheaper emergency issues of 1918–19. By the time this was printed, sourcing security paper was a deliberate choice, not a necessity.