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75 Pfennig Tabakmesshaus Kosmos
| Issuer | Messhaus Kosmos, Leipzig |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 March 1922 |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour letterpress design in green, red, black and white, with a central rectangular vignette set against a red ground portraying a bearded man in profile lighting or smoking a cigar, rendered in an expressive woodcut-style idiom. The vignette is enclosed within a decorative border composed of crossed cigars, tobacco pipes, curling smoke motifs and green tobacco leaves at each corner, all on a black ground. The artist's monogram 'WR' with the year '22' appears in the upper right corner of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | WR 22 |
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Messhaus Kosmos was one of Leipzig's trade fair exhibition buildings, and this 75 Pfennig note belongs to the wave of privately issued Notgeld that flooded Germany during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s. The issuer is unusual — not a municipality or savings bank, but a commercial trade hall, suggesting the note circulated internally or among fair vendors rather than in general retail channels. The engraver monogram "WR" appears dated 1922, which sits a year later than the issue year; whether this reflects a reprinting, a revised plate, or simply a delayed engraving credit is unresolved in the literature.