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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Harzgerode (City of Harzgerode) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a neoclassical pavilion or garden temple with a broad staircase, set among trees and rendered in a coloured lithographic style. Flanking the vignette on left and right are tall decorative pedestals surmounted by ornamental urns, printed in green. Below the vignette appear the issuing authority text and date, with the denomination numeral '75' in red at lower left and right, and the word 'Gutschein' alongside a serial number panel; the printer's imprint 'Louis Koch · Halberstadt' is at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALEXISBAD |
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Harzgerode is a small town in the Harz mountains of Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic coin shortage that had plagued everyday commerce since the war. The Stadt's 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual; most municipal Notgeld clustered around 25, 50, and the occasional 1 Mark, so the 75 Pfennig value suggests either a specific local pricing need or a deliberate set completion.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist currency house, which was entirely normal for this wave of small-denomination Notgeld — quality and security were secondary to speed and local availability.