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75 Pfennig History Series
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Saalfeld an der Saale |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Saalfeld a. Saale Gutschein über Fünfundsiebzig Pfg. Saalfeld a. Saale den 1. August 1921. Der Magistrat. |
| Reverse description | Cream-ground note with a fine engine-turned line-pattern underprint forming the main field. A large central oval vignette in full colour portrays a horse-drawn yellow postal stagecoach passing before a multi-gabled Renaissance-style building identified as the old post house of Saalfeld; at left and right flanking the oval are gilt circular medallions each bearing the numeral '75', surmounted by postal horns with red tassels. 'Saalfeld a. Saale' is inscribed in bold Fraktur across the top, and 'Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig' in matching script along the lower margin, the whole enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. |
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Saalfeld's 1921 Notgeld series was among dozens issued by Thuringian municipalities during the hyperinflationary spiral that followed Germany's post-war reparations burden. What distinguishes locally printed Notgeld from this period is precisely that — local printing. Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG operated in Saalfeld itself, meaning the Magistrat could control both production timing and distribution in a way that towns dependent on outside printers could not.
The "History Series" designation suggests this was issued as part of a deliberately collectible set, a common strategy by 1921 as municipalities discovered that collectors hoarding unspent notes effectively provided interest-free credit to the issuer.