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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Gera (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bold Expressionist vignette in grey-black and red on a silver-grey ground, enclosed by a red rectangular border. At centre-left, a medieval figure in hat and cloak strides forward brandishing a weapon, with flames and a recumbent figure rendered in dynamic, angular strokes above and behind. The denomination '75' appears in large outlined red and white numerals at lower right, flanked by a stylised 'G' monogram at upper left. The inscription 'GELITTEN·RAUB·UND·BRAND' runs across the top and 'IN·FRUEHESTER·ZEIT' along the bottom, with the artist's signature 'KARL SCHNEIDER ERFURT' inscribed along the lower edge of the central vignette. |
| 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.