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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Pyritz (District of Pyritz, Pomerania) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Preiss |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint on white paper, with the denomination spelled out in Gothic Fraktur script as "Fünfundsiebzig" across the centre, flanked by the numeral "75" on each side with the abbreviation "Pf." between them. The issuer legend "Kreis Pyritz in Pommern" appears in the upper panel, separated by a double rule, while the lower portion carries the validity clause, issuing authority designation "Die Kreiskasse:", place and date "Pyritz, den 1. April 1921", and a manuscript authorisation signature. The entire design is enclosed within a solid black rectangular border. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour letterpress vignette printed in green, brown, and black against a dark night-sky background, centred on an oval portrait of Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, shown in episcopal vestments and mitre, holding a book. Ruined medieval towers and fortifications of the Pyritz town walls rise on either side amid green foliage, evoking the historical Pomeranian landscape. The upper legend reads "Kreis Pyritz in Pomm. * Der Weizacker *" with the denomination numeral "75" at upper right, while a lower cartouche carries the historical inscription in Gothic script; the designer's name "PREISS" appears at lower right within the vignette. |
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Pyritz (now Pyrzyce in northwestern Poland) was part of the Pomeranian province absorbed into Poland after 1945, which effectively erased the issuing institution from existence. This Notgeld piece was produced during the 1921 small-change crisis, when acute shortages of low-denomination coinage forced German district savings banks to issue their own emergency currency — a practice the Reichsbank tolerated but did not sanction.
The designer credit "Preiss" appears on a number of Pomeranian Notgeld series from this period, suggesting a regional commercial artist rather than a specialist printer's engraver.