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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ellerbek (Municipality of Ellerbek) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and black on a cream ground, framed by an ornate border of bold interlaced Art Nouveau scrollwork in black with red highlights, with the numeral '75' in each corner cartouche. The central vignette presents a large red-toned rural farmstead with a long thatched and tiled roof, set against a sky with billowing clouds, rendered in a pointillist-influenced folk-art style; an artist's signature 'Schreiber' appears at the lower right of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 |
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Ellerbek is a small town immediately adjacent to Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it resorted to printing its own Notgeld when the Reichsbank failed to supply adequate small-denomination coinage during the postwar inflation spiral. The 75 Pfennig denomination is moderately unusual — most municipal issues clustered at 25, 50, and 100 Pfennig — suggesting either a specific local pricing need or a deliberate effort to issue a complete set across an odd denomination spread.
Ellerbek's series is not among the extensively documented collector-targeted Notgeld issues, which implies it was printed for genuine transactional use rather than to exploit the philatelic market that had already emerged by 1921.