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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stellingen-Langenfelde (Municipality of Stellingen-Langenfelde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown Notgeld note printed by letterpress on a lace-patterned guilloche underprint. The title 'Stellinger Notgeld' is inscribed in bold Fraktur script across the upper portion, flanked on each side by star-burst denomination panels reading '75 Pfennig'. A central vignette within a decorative frame presents a seated chimpanzee holding a bottle labelled 'Cagn', a humorous allusion to Hagenbeck's zoological park in nearby Stellingen. Below the vignette a banner carries a Low German dialectal rhyme, and a further panel at the foot bears the validity clause, the date 'Stellingen, 1. Oktober 1920', and three manuscript signatures with the printer's imprint 'C. Schönfeldt, Stellingen' at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Adolf Brinckmann and H. Lakenmacher |
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Stellingen-Langenfelde was an independent municipality on Hamburg's western edge — it was absorbed into Greater Hamburg only in 1937. This note dates from the peak of Germany's municipal Notgeld wave, when small communities issued their own emergency fractional currency to compensate for a chronic shortage of small coins. The 75 Pfennig denomination was common in this series but the local printer, C. Schönfeldt, was a genuinely small operation producing for an equally small issuing authority, which kept print runs modest.
Brinckmann served as Bürgermeister; Lakenmacher's role was likely municipal treasurer.