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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Sachsa, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a panoramic colour vignette divided by a large central fir tree into a summer scene on the left and a winter scene on the right. The left half shows the Bahnhof Bad Sachsa with arriving tourists, luggage, and a red early-motor vehicle; the right half illustrates winter sports on a snowy slope, with skiers and sledgers against a forested Harz mountain backdrop. The denomination '75' appears in red at both upper corners, and a decorative scroll banner at the top carries the town name, while three descriptive captions run along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Bad Sachsa- a Südharz. 75 Bahnhof Bad Sachsa Sachsa Landschaftlich hervorragend, ärztl. empfohlener Kurort Glanzpunkt d. Harzes. Wintersport-Längste Rodelbahn des Harzes. |
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Bad Sachsa sits in the southern Harz, a spa town that — like hundreds of German municipalities — was forced into issuing its own fractional paper currency when the postwar coin shortage made everyday commerce nearly impossible. This 75 Pfennig Notgeld was printed by Louis Koch of Halberstadt, a regional firm that handled emergency currency for numerous small Harz-area municipalities during the same period, which occasionally makes precise attribution between similar series tricky.
The 75 Pfennig denomination itself is a small tell: it surfaces frequently in 1921 Notgeld sets designed for sale to collectors as much as for actual use at the baker or the chemist.