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75 Pfennig Männer-Gesang-Verein
| Issuer | Männer-Gesang-Verein Geldern |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in polychrome — predominantly yellow, ochre, red, and brown — the reverse presents a large central scene of two armoured medieval knights subduing a dragon, illustrating the local legend of Wichard and Lupold at Gelre in 878 AD. Heraldic shields of Straelen (left) and Xanten (right) flank the scene, with ornamental pillar borders and denomination numerals 75 in circular cartouches at lower left and right. The artist's name Heinr. Kersten, Geldern appears below the central vignette, and a four-line verse in Gothic lettering occupies the lower panel. |
| Reverse lettering | Getre in Gelderland ERLEGUNG DES DRACHEN 878. STRAELEN XANTEN SERIE A – No. 2 Gelre-Gelre WICHARD UND LUPOLD, ZWEI HELDEN; KONNTEN NACH DEM KAMPFE MELDEN: DER DRACHE MACHT SEIN TESTAMENT. GELRE! GELRE! SCHRIE ER AM END! 75 75 |
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Männer-Gesang-Verein Geldern was a local choral society, and this 75 Pfennig note is a piece of Notgeld — emergency scrip issued during the hyperinflationary crisis that tore through the Weimar Republic in 1922. Civic organizations, choral clubs, and even sports societies issued such notes when small-denomination coinage disappeared entirely from circulation, hoarded or melted as the mark collapsed. The Geldern series is locally designed, with Heinrich Kersten working in town rather than through a major printing house.
The watermark is an uncommon security feature for minor Notgeld issues of this type, suggesting a slightly more considered production than the purely ephemeral scrip typical of the period.