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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gnarrenburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note with an Art Nouveau-style scrollwork underprint filling the entire field, centred by a large oval vignette enclosing the bold numeral '75' in blue against a brown ground. Running around the inner border of the oval is a continuous Kurrent-script redemption clause. At the lower left and right, two small cartouches bear manuscript signatures of the Gemeindevorsteher and the Gemeindevertretung respectively, with the printer's imprint 'Druck v. Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover' below the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pf. Weil in Gnarrenburg soväl Glasbläsers sind, Dorüm makt se do ok soveel Wind! Gemeinde Gnarrenburg |
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Gnarrenburg is a small municipality in the Teufelsmoor peatlands southeast of Bremen, and this 75 Pfennig note is pure Notgeld — local emergency scrip issued during the hyperinflationary spiral that made Reichsbank coin and small-denomination notes functionally useless in everyday trade. Gebrüder Jänecke of Hannover was a prolific printer of exactly this kind of municipal scrip in 1921, producing runs for dozens of Lower Saxon communities simultaneously.
The signatories Liedweg and Schriefer Holljnb almost certainly represent local municipal officials rather than any banking authority — standard for Gemeinde-issued Notgeld, where civic administrators rather than financiers held signing responsibility.