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75 Pfennig Hunting Series - Issue 5
| Issuer | Stadt Bürgel (City of Bürgel, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper, the obverse is centred on the circular municipal seal of Bürgel inscribed SIEGEL DER STADT BÜRGEL and enclosing an equestrian figure of St. George, flanked by vignettes of ceramic pottery vessels — a teapot to the left and a jug to the right — set against a silhouetted townscape with a church steeple, with oak-leaf ornaments in the upper corners and octagonal value cartouches bearing '75' at each side. The lower portion carries a two-line validity text, a serial number, the place-and-date inscription 'Bürgel/Th. d. 28 Mai 1921', and the printer's imprint. Manuscript signatures appear above the printed designations Stadtgemeindevorstand and Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in grey and orange on plain paper, the reverse presents two arched vignettes by Arno Grimm: to the left, a lively banquet scene with cooks and diners in a medieval hall; to the right, a musician playing a trombone accompanied by a small dog. A central medallion tied with orange ribbons bears the Gothic numeral '75', while a bold Gothic-script header occupies the top panel and the denomination is spelled out in full across a decorative Gothic band at the foot of the note. |
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Bürgel, a small Thuringian town better known for its stoneware pottery tradition, issued this Notgeld series during the inflationary chaos of 1921 — a period when hundreds of German municipalities printed their own emergency small change simply because Reichsmünzen had effectively vanished from circulation. The hunting theme was a deliberate collector bait; towns quickly discovered that thematic series sold to collectors far beyond their own borders, generating profit well above face value.
Arno Grimm's design was printed locally by Kunstanstalt Alfred Eisenach, making this a genuinely local production start to finish — unusual given how many municipalities farmed such work to larger Leipzig or Berlin printers.