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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Burg an der Wupper, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on white smooth paper, the obverse carries a detailed letterpress vignette of Burg Castle atop a wooded hillside, executed in a fine line-art style. At lower left and right, the denomination numeral '75' appears in ornate Gothic frames, flanking a central text panel bearing the issuing authority, date '1. XII. 21.' and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. To the right, a circular municipal seal bearing the legend 'BURG B.M. SIEGEL ET FREIHEIT' is rendered in the form of a rosette, with validity inscription 'Gültig bis 1. IV. 22' printed within a decorative border band above the text panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | Burg a.d. Wupper BUR B.M. SIEGEL ET FREIHEIT Burg a.d. Wupper 1. XII. 1921 Der Bürgermeister |
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Burg an der Wupper was absorbed into the newly consolidated city of Solingen in 1929, which makes its independent municipal notgeld issues a brief footnote to a place that ceased to exist as an administrative unit within a decade of printing them. The 1921 date puts this squarely in the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — after the inflation pressures of 1919–1920 but well before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1922–1923 that rendered such denominations meaningless.
The DeNG reference suffix 9/16 indicates a specific date variant within the 209.1 type, suggesting the city issued this denomination across multiple dates — common practice for Bergisches Land municipalities trying to maintain circulating small change as coins vanished from commerce.