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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Hofgeismar |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a folk-art style design in red, green, and ochre tones. A central oval vignette contains the district arms — a mounted armoured knight on a rearing white horse — framed by decorative foliage and red poppy blossoms. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large bold red characters at left and right, with the issuer heading 'Kreis Hofgeismar' in Gothic script across the top, a serial number at lower left, and a payment obligation text in German script at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Uncoloured letterpress vignette in black on cream paper, reproducing an old woodcut-style panoramic view of the town of Wrebenstein, with a hilltop castle at upper left, a walled town with church steeples in the middle ground, and open countryside in the foreground. The town name 'Wrebenstein' is inscribed in Gothic script at upper right. |
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Hofgeismar is a small town in Hesse-Nassau, and this note is typical of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities in 1921–1922 as chronic small-change shortages forced local savings banks and district administrations to print their own fractional currency. The Kreissparkasse — a district-level savings institution — had both the administrative standing and the local credibility to issue notes that residents would actually accept.
Gebrüder Gotthelft in Cassel printed extensively for Hessian municipal issuers during this period and were a go-to house for mid-tier Notgeld work in the region. The DeNG reference grouping under 0619.1-3/5 suggests at least three design variants within the series.