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75 Pfennigs History Series
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Saalfeld a. Saale (City of Saalfeld, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 105 x 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | Tan-ground notgeld with Gothic blackletter title 'Saalfeld a. Saale' at top, flanked by red stars. Central vignette in pointed arch surround shows a medieval castle ruin above trees; to the left, the city arms (two fish on black shield) and to the right, denomination '75 Pfg.' in green on black shield. Lower panel in terracotta carries the issue date and magistrate signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Saalfeld a. Saale Gutschein über Fünfundsiebzig Pfg. Saalfeld a. Saale den 1. August 1921. Der Magistrat WIEDEMANNSCHE DRUCKEREI A.-G. SAALFELD i. THÜR. |
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Saalfeld's 1921 Notgeld series was among the more historically ambitious of the Thuringian municipal issues — the town leaned hard into its medieval and early modern past at a moment when Weimar Germany's municipal authorities were scrambling to produce emergency small change following the postwar coin shortage. The Wiedemannsche Druckerei was a local firm, which kept both the printing contract and any pride of authorship inside the town walls.
Notgeld of this period was frequently collected rather than spent, a fact the issuers knew and exploited — series were designed to encourage set completion, effectively subsidizing municipal budgets through philatelic demand.