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75 Pfennig Goethe Series - Issue 8
| Issuer | Magistrat und Gemeinderat der Stadt Pößneck |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Goethe: Hermann und Dorothea: 8 Aus: Melpomene. Hermann und Dorothea. Die in Wolken sich tief gewitterdrohend verhüllte/ aus dem Schleier/ bald hier bald dort/ mit glühenden Blicken/ strahlend über das Feld die — ahnungsvolle Beleuchtung. Möge das drohende Wetter/ so sagte Hermann/ nicht etwa Schäßen uns bringen und heftigen Guß/ denn schön ist die Ernte. 75 Pf. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung Pößneck, den 31. Juli 1921. Magistrat: und Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold, colourful woodcut-style vignette of two figures — Hermann and Dorothea — standing side by side in silhouette against a radiating sunburst in golden yellow and blue-grey clouds, set within a rural landscape with trees and hillocks in green and red-brown tones. The denomination '75' appears in each of the four corners in blue, with the heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck' in Gothic lettering across the upper border. A quotation from Goethe's 'Hermann und Dorothea' in Gothic script runs along the lower border, with the printer's imprint below. |
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Pößneck's Goethe-themed Notgeld series was among the more ambitious municipal paper issues of the 1921 inflation period, deliberately designed for collector sale as much as local circulation — a practice that had become widespread enough by that year that the Reichsbank was openly hostile to it. The series was produced in sequenced issues, this being the eighth, which points to a sustained print campaign rather than a single emergency authorization.
Johannes Arndt in Jena handled the printing. The specific suffix designation "3a" within the reference suggests a variant — likely a color or paper stock difference from the base type within the same issue run.