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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Scheeßel, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and yellow-green on pale paper, the obverse centres on a circular vignette of the Scheeßel village church with its distinctive pointed steeple, flanked by half-timbered houses, trees, and horse-drawn carts in the foreground. Denomination cartouches reading '75 Pf.' appear in the upper left and right corners, with the issuer's name arched along the top of the vignette in Gothic script. A text panel below carries the redemption notice, date 'Scheeßel, 1. Okt. 1921', a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher, and the printer's imprint 'Deutschländer & Co. Nachf., Hamburg' at the foot. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Scheeßel is a small market town in Lower Saxony, and this 75 Pfennig note is a product of the Notgeld wave that followed Germany's acute coin shortage after the First World War. Municipalities across the Reich issued their own emergency small-denomination scrip from roughly 1916 onward; by 1921, many towns were producing collector-targeted "Serienscheine" with elaborate artwork, though the distinction between genuine emergency currency and material printed primarily for philatelic sale had largely collapsed by this point.
Deutschländer & Co. Nachf. in Hamburg was a mid-tier commercial printer active in the Notgeld trade. The watermarked paper is a minor security gesture — more common on municipal issues from this period than is often assumed.