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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Bergstadt Altenau am Harz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | A richly coloured lithographic winter landscape vignette occupying the central panel shows a skier descending a snow-covered Harz slope past snow-laden conifers, red-roofed farm buildings, and a roe deer in the foreground, with a sledge visible on the valley path. The caption 'Partie aus der Bergstadt Altenau' runs along the bottom of the vignette. Vertical inscriptions in teal lettering frame the scene on both sides. |
| Reverse lettering | WINTERFREUNDE, MANN UND FRAU AUF ZUM SCHNEESCHUHLAUF NACH ALTENAU! PARTIE AUS DER BERGSTADT ALTENAU. |
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Altenau, a small silver-mining town in the Upper Harz, issued this Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar years. The Magistrat — the municipal authority — produced emergency currency not out of financial crisis but out of pure necessity: federal coinage had effectively vanished from daily commerce, hoarded or melted as metal values outpaced face values.
The Harz Notgeld issues from 1921 were often locally themed and printed in short runs, which is precisely why individual municipal pieces survive in such uneven numbers today. The DeNG 1/2#17.1 designation places this within a catalogued series of six known types for Altenau.