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75 Pfennig Industry Series
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck, Thuringia) |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck SICH-REGEN-BRINGT-SEGEN Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Bekanntmachung. 75 Pf Magistrat und Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width polychrome lithographic vignette of a textile weaving workshop, with two female workers operating large mechanical looms; a golden-yellow border frames the central scene, with octagonal black cartouches bearing '75 Pf' at each corner. A continuous verse in Fraktur script runs along all four borders, extolling Pößneck's flannel production, and a small printer's monogram appears at the lower right corner. |
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Pößneck was a mid-sized Thuringian town with a strong industrial base in porcelain, leather goods, and pencil manufacturing — the "Industry Series" name wasn't decorative flourish but a direct reference to the local economy the Notgeld was meant to keep liquid. By the early 1920s, municipal Notgeld had shifted from genuine emergency currency into a semi-commercial product, with towns commissioning attractive series partly for sale to collectors. The print run of over twelve million for a single denomination from a town of that size leans heavily toward that philatelic market.
Kühlborn was a local Pößneck printer, which kept production costs down and gave the series a distinctly regional character.