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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband Auerbach im Vogtland |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Bezirksverband Auerbach i. Vogtland Gutschein über Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig Gültig bis zum Aufruf des Bezirksverbandes Auerbach i. V., 1. Juli 1921 75 |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a striking silhouette-cut vignette executed in the Scherenschnitt (paper-cutting) folk-art style by Hans Kinder, printed in dark brown on a pale cream ground. The scene illustrates a narrative tableau with three figures — a robed official, a cook, and a partially visible fourth figure — in a moment of animated interaction, with a two-line verse caption in Fraktur script below the image. A multi-ruled rectangular border frames the composition, and the printer's credit appears at the lower left and right margins. |
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Auerbach im Vogtland was one of hundreds of German municipalities scrambling to produce Notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s, when coin shortages made small-denomination emergency money a practical necessity rather than a collector's curiosity. The Bezirksverband — the district association, not the municipality proper — acted as issuer here, a subtle administrative distinction that places this note slightly outside the more common town-council issues of the period.
Heinz Schiesil's design work and the Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce imprint from Glauchau — roughly 60 kilometers from Auerbach — suggest the district turned to a regional commercial press rather than producing in-house, a common enough arrangement when local printing capacity was limited.