75 Pfennig Kleinrentner-Nothilfe

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.