75 Pfennig, District of Auerbach im Vogtland, 1921
Gutschein des Bezirksverbandes Auerbach i. Vogtland
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00396
- Series year
- 1921
- Actually issued
- 1921
- district
- not read unread
Printed as a facsimile; the engraver's reduction has lost the letter forms.
- Grade
- UNC (IBNS)
As issued: full body, square corners, bright unfaded ink and no fold through the design. Estimated from the 600 dpi archival scan, which shows folds, soiling and edge condition but not paper crispness, pinholes, pressing or small repairs.
- Estimated value
- $10 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-26.
- Dimensions
- 100 × 73 mm (±1.1, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldSerienscheinWeimar RepublicSaxonyVogtlandSilhouetteDistrict issue
The type
- Type
- 75 Pfennig, District of Auerbach im Vogtland, 1921
- Printer
- Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce, Glauchau
- Rarity
- common
Symbology
- Scene 3
- A great bear-like shape looming over a small castle, cut in white against black. The story has turned from the table to something less comfortable.
- Seventy-five Pfennig
- A denomination that exists so the set has four notes rather than three.
What was happening
Notgeld began in 1914 out of necessity: coin vanished into hoards within weeks of mobilisation and towns printed their own small change because the Reichsbank could not supply enough.
By 1920 it had become something else. The shortage was easing but the collector market was not, and a town could take real marks for paper it hoped would never be presented. So the municipalities commissioned Serienscheine: lithographed sets, printed far beyond any local need, illustrated with whatever the place was proud of - a legend, a famous son, a battle, a joke in dialect. The result is the most inventive body of graphic design in the history of paper money, made by places with a few thousand inhabitants, in the years when Germany's currency was dying.
The seventy-five carries scene 3 of the same silhouette story, and its couplet gives the bailiff his reward: bis in der Auerbacher Luft sein Herz erquickt ein lockrer Duft - until in the Auerbach air a tempting smell revives his heart.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 75 Pfennig, District of Auerbach im Vogtland, 1921 in the collection.
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