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75 Pfennig Kleinrentner-Nothilfe
| Issuer | Kleinrentner-Nothilfe, Meiningen (Thuringia) |
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| Size | 90 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central colour-printed vignette enclosed within an arched foliate border, illustrating the scene of Saint Martin of Tours on horseback — armoured and mounted on a white horse — cutting his red cloak to share with a kneeling, near-naked beggar in the foreground, set against a landscape with trees and a golden sky. The denomination numeral '75' appears in the upper left and upper right corners in large Gothic figures. Below the vignette, a decorative cartouche bears the legend in two lines of red and black blackletter script, with the printer's imprint in the lower right margin. |
| 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.