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75 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Striegau (City Bank of Striegau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue, ochre, and black, centred on a circular medallion with a bold silhouette portrait in left profile of Frederick the Great in a tricorne hat, set against a white roundel within a blue field. To the left and right stand full-length vignettes of 18th-century Prussian soldiers — a drummer to the left and a standard-bearer to the right — rendered in fine black line illustration on an ochre ground. The lower section carries the denomination in Fraktur script in two grey panels flanking a central text box with the redemption conditions. |
| Reverse lettering | BRUNO HANDKE 4. Juni Striegau in Schlesien 1745 Fünfundsiebzig Pfennige Die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines erfolgt bei der Stadtbank Striegau in Schlesien. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Fünfundsiebzig Pfennige |
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Striegau, now Strzegów in southwestern Poland, was a minor Silesian textile town when it issued this note during the Weimar notgeld period. The Stadtbank — a municipal rather than Reichsbank-affiliated institution — was one of hundreds of local bodies authorized to plug the coin shortage that had gutted retail commerce by 1921. F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, far better known as a publisher of encyclopedias and reference works, took on considerable notgeld printing contracts during this period as a commercial sideline.
Bruno Handke designed several Silesian notgeld issues. Striegau's granite quarrying industry, which dominated the regional economy, likely informed whatever imagery Handke supplied to Brockhaus's press.