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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Halstenbek (Municipality of Halstenbek) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde HALSTENBEK (COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG) 75 Pfg. 75 Pfg. Dieser Schein verliert 2 Wochen nach Aufruf im Pinneberger Tagblatt u. Lockstedter Anzeiger seine Gültigkeit DER COM. AMTSVORSTEHER: DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS: i.A. KONRAD HANF, HAMBURG 8. |
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| Reverse lettering | No 1 KULTUREN Pfleget den Wald! Er ist des Wohstands sichere Quelle, Schnell verheert ihn die Axt; langsam nur wächst er heran. All' unser Schaffen und Tun: Die Enkel werden es richten, Sorgen mit Fleiß wir zur Zeit, dass sie uns rühmen dereinst! 75 75 |
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Halstenbek is a small village west of Hamburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the Weimar-era currency collapse, it issued its own emergency Kleingeld — small-denomination Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of official coinage and low-denomination paper after the First World War. The 75-Pfennig value places this firmly in the 1920–1922 small-series wave, before hyperinflation rendered fractional denominations completely meaningless.
Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer who handled Notgeld commissions for several northern German municipalities during this period — a local job for a local client, typical of how the Kleingeld boom worked in practice.