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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Leopoldshall |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blue-grey letterpress reverse dominated by a large central vignette of workers loading salt inside a mine shaft, with a wooden staircase and sloping salt face rendered in fine illustrative style; the caption 'Verladung der Salze.' and the plate number '9' appear within the vignette frame. Flanking panels at left and right each carry a crossed-pick emblem above sheaves of wheat and a cluster of root vegetables, evoking the agricultural and mining wealth of the region. The denomination '75 Pfg.' appears in large numerals at each lower corner, with the inscription 'Gutschein der Stadt Leopoldshall i. Anh.' across the top and 'Kali- und Steinsalzgewinnung.' along the bottom border. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Leopoldshall i. Anh. 75 Pfg. Verladung der Salze. Kali- und Steinsalzgewinnung. |
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Leopoldshall was a small industrial town in Saxony-Anhalt, best known as a center of potash mining and processing — the kind of place that issued Notgeld not because of any financial sophistication, but because the postwar coin shortage hit working-class industrial communities hard and wages had to be paid in something. The Magistrat's 1921 series falls into the later "collector Notgeld" wave, when municipalities had largely solved the practical shortage but found a secondary market in selling sets to hobbyists across Germany.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional jobbing printer, not a specialist in currency work, which occasionally shows in the registration quality of surviving examples from this series.