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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neugraben-Hausbruch |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 Pf. Notgeld pf. 100 der Gemeinde NEUGRABEN-HAUSBRUCH Gültig nur innerhalb der Ortschaften Neugraben, Hausbruch, Alt- und Neuwiedenthal bis zum 31. März 1922. Neugraben-Hausbruch, den 15. August 1921. Nr. Of unf Gold is nich beter, as dat Hausbroof-Niegrobnener Notgeld. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full central vignette rendered in a coloured caricature style, showing two figures in heavy winter coats conversing in a bleak urban setting, with motor vehicles and barriers in the background and a prone figure visible in the foreground right; the scene is a satirical commentary on post-war Germany. The denomination '100' appears in bold blackletter at each corner against the surrounding guilloche-patterned border. A rhetorical headline inscription arches across the top, a sardonic caption closes the bottom, and vertical satirical texts flank the vignette on both sides. |
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Neugraben-Hausbruch was a rural commune on Hamburg's southwestern fringe, and this 100 Pfennig Notgeld piece dates from the period when municipal authorities across Germany were issuing their own emergency small change to compensate for the chronic coin shortage that persisted well into the early 1920s. The Reichsbank's inability to keep fractional coinage in circulation — partly through hoarding, partly through raw material costs exceeding face value — pushed thousands of Gemeinden into the printing business.
At 100 Pfennig, this sits at the upper edge of typical Kleingeldscheine denominations, equivalent to one Mark at a moment when that Mark was already losing ground fast against inflation that would become catastrophic within two years.