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75 Pfennig Sportverein Eintracht
| Issuer | Sportverein Eintracht, Celle |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Eduard Binder, Celle, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Dark-ground vignette in a Jugendstil idiom, with a central allegorical group of three classical figures — a standing male athlete flanked by two seated female figures — rendered in ochre and black letterpress against radiating linear sunburst. The left panel carries the memorial inscription in decorative light-blue lettering on black ground, while the upper-right corner bears a circular medallion with the rearing-horse arms of Celle above the city name. A coiling serpent and fantastical creatures fill the lower-right margin. The date '1. DEZEMBER 1921' appears beneath the central vignette, with a lower text panel for the sports-ground donation appeal and two manuscript signature lines for the club chairmen, captioned '1. VORSITZENDER' and '2. VORSITZENDER'. The artist's signature 'König-Eschede' is visible at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 PFENNIG / KUGELSTOSSEN / 75 PFENNIG / A. König-Eschede / KUNSTANST. EDUARD BINDER, CELLE |
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German notgeld issued by a sports club is unusual enough to warrant attention. Celle's Sportverein Eintracht produced this 75 Pfennig piece in 1921 during the height of the notgeld collecting craze, when municipalities, clubs, and private organizations across Germany exploited the public's appetite for decorative small change. Many such issues were never intended to circulate seriously — they were printed for sale to collectors at face value or above, generating revenue for the issuing body.
Eduard Binder was a local Celle printer with no particular distinction beyond regional notgeld production. The designer credit to A. König-Eschede suggests the artist was based in the nearby village of Eschede, a common arrangement for small-run provincial issues.