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75 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Striegau (City Bank of Striegau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Crimson and grey Notgeld note with a central vignette of a Striegau street scene showing a cobblestone lane flanked by historic townhouses and an arched gateway inscribed 'Schloss'. Flanking the vignette are two circular laurel-wreath medallions each enclosing the denomination numeral '75', tied with a ribbon. Decorative scroll banners in the upper field bear inscriptions referencing the Battle of Hohenfriedeberg and visits by Frederick the Great, while a pale green lower panel carries the issuing authority text, three facsimile signatures, the date '1921', and the printer's imprint 'F.A.Brockhaus, Leipzig'. The artists' names 'BRUNO' and 'HANDKE' appear below the lateral medallions. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pfennige FR (crowned cypher, repeated) STRIEGAU 4. JUNI 1745 Die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines erfolgt bei der Stadtbank Striegau im Rathaus. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. |
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Striegau — now Strzegom in southwestern Poland — was a textile and granite-quarrying town in Lower Silesia, and this 75 Pfennig note is a product of the post-WWI Notgeld wave that flooded Germany with locally issued emergency paper between 1918 and 1923. F. A. Brockhaus of Leipzig, far better known as an encyclopaedia publisher, operated a significant printing division that took on substantial Notgeld work during this period — a commercially pragmatic sideline for a firm whose core business had been disrupted by wartime paper shortages.
Bruno Handke designed the series; his work appears across several Silesian municipal issues of the same vintage.