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75 Pfennig Goethe Series - Issue 10
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Pößneck |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Goethe: Hermann und Dorothea: 10 Aus: Urania. Ausicht. Desto fester sei / bei der allgemeinen Erschütterung, Dorothea, der Bund! Wir wollen halten und dauern, fest uns halten und fest der schönen Güter Besitztum / denn der Mensch, der zur schwankenden Zeit auch schwankend gesinnt ist / der vermehret das Übel / und breitet es weiter und weiter; aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt / der bildet die Welt sich. Nicht dem Deutschen geziemt es / die fürchterliche Bewegung fortzuleiten / und auch zu wanken hierhin und dorthin. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung Pößneck, den 31. Juli 1921. / Magistrat- und Gemeinderat: 75 Pf. |
| Reverse description | The upper border bears the title 'Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck' in bold Fraktur lettering on a yellow-ochre ground, with the numeral '75' repeated in each corner. The central vignette, signed 'Kolsau', is a coloured woodcut-style scene illustrating the betrothal episode from Hermann und Dorothea: Hermann and Dorothea clasp hands at centre, attended by two elderly figures to the left and a clergyman with a companion to the right, all rendered in a flat, expressionist palette of blue, green, ochre, and red against a pale underprint. A caption strip at the foot reads 'Aber der Bräutigam sprach mit edler männlicher Rührung:', with the printer's imprint 'Druck: Johannes Arndt-Jena' below the lower border. |
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Pößneck's Goethe-themed Notgeld series was part of a deliberate collecting craze that swept Germany in the early 1920s. Municipalities discovered that artistically printed emergency currency, issued in numbered series, would be hoarded rather than spent — effectively generating free municipal credit. This tenth installment in the series follows that logic precisely: printed by Johannes Arndt in Jena but circulated, nominally, in Pößneck.
The DeNG reference places this as the final piece in the ten-note run, which matters for completeness-driven collectors who drove the secondary market even during the inflation period itself.