75 Pfennig

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.