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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Büsum (Municipality of Büsum) |
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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 blue and red letterpress within a plain red rectangular border. A diamond-shaped central vignette in blue depicts women harvesting seaweed on the North Sea tidal mudflats, with sailing vessels and seabirds in the background and a wicker basket in the foreground. The red title 'Ol Büsum.' is set above the vignette, flanked on either side by columns of Low German verse in red Gothic script, with the caption 'De Büsumer Krautfru: Kraut! Kraut!' positioned in the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Ol Büsum. Ol Büsum liggt int wille Haff De Flot de keem, un wöhl en Graff. De Flot de keem un spöl un spöl, Bet se de Insel ünner-wöhl. De Büsumer Krautfru: Kraut! Kraut! |
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Büsum is a small North Sea coastal town in Schleswig-Holstein, and its 1921 Notgeld issues were printed locally by W. Clausen — an unusual degree of provincial self-sufficiency even by Weimar-era emergency currency standards, where most municipalities farmed printing to established houses in Hamburg, Berlin, or Leipzig. The 75 Pfennig denomination itself is characteristic of the second wave of German Notgeld, when issuers began subdividing more aggressively to cover the full spread of small-change shortages as inflation accelerated.
Büsum was a minor fishing port and early seaside resort, and its municipal finances were correspondingly modest — which makes the local printing decision a practical one rather than a statement of civic pride.