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75 Pfennig

Issuer Gemeinde Neinstedt (Municipality of Neinstedt)
Year 1921
Type Local banknote
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Obverse description The obverse is dominated by a decorative border of stylised oak leaves and acorns rendered in olive-green, framing the central text field on a cream ground. The upper portion carries the issuer's title in bold Kurrent script, beneath which four lines of Low German dialect verse are set in a calligraphic hand. A lower panel in pale grey bears the denomination numeral '75' in large bold type at left and right corners, with the validity clause, place and date of issue ('Neinstedt, im Sept. 1921') and the authorising signature of the Gemeindevorstand centred between them. The printer's imprint 'Druckerei Poessl, Bad Suderode' appears in small type below the lower border.
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Reverse lettering Neinstedter Schlüssel- und Klöppelkrieg 1661:
Höhne wird nach Halberstadt gebracht.
75
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Neinstedt is a small village in the Harz district, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money printed across Germany as chronic coin shortages — caused first by wartime hoarding, then by rampant inflation — forced even the smallest communities to self-issue. Druckerei Poessl in nearby Bad Suderode handled the printing, a local arrangement typical of Harz-region issues where proximity kept costs down and delivery fast.

The reference number suggests multiple design variants within the 0933 series, which collectors of Serienscheine should note when reconciling holdings against the DeNG catalogue.

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