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75 Pfennig Kleinrentner-Nothilfe
| Issuer | Kleinrentner-Nothilfe, Meiningen (Thuringia) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The face is laid out in three horizontal registers rendered in Gothic blackletter script with red and black ink on a light ground with a subtle pink ruled-line underprint. The upper register bears a two-line Biblical citation in red and black lettering. The central register carries the denomination numeral '75' set within two flanking square green vignettes with foliate ornamental borders, with the issuer inscription centred between them in black Gothic type. The lower register contains a three-line charitable disclaimer legend in red and black blackletter, all enclosed within a thin double-rule frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der heilige Martin teilt seinen Mantel mit dem Armen (Translation: Saint Martin shares his cloak with the poor man) Offseldruck Arthur Kirchner, Erfurt. |
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Kleinrentner — literally "small pensioners" — were a class of middle-class Germans, mostly retirees living on fixed incomes or war bonds, who were financially annihilated by the hyperinflation of the early 1920s. The Kleinrentner-Nothilfe organizations were emergency relief bodies set up to distribute what little assistance existed for them. That this one in Meiningen issued its own Notgeld is unusual: most relief bodies were not currency issuers, and the practical mechanics of how these notes functioned within a welfare distribution scheme — whether redeemable at local merchants, offset against food vouchers, or exchangeable at municipal offices — remains poorly documented.
Offsetdruck Arthur Kirchner of Erfurt handled a considerable volume of Thuringian Notgeld production during this period.