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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nordhausen (City of Nordhausen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, an oval wreath cartouche encloses a full-length vignette of 'Der wilde Mann' — the Wild Man, a bearded figure wearing only a wreath of foliage — standing barefoot before a mountainous landscape with a tall conifer. Flanking scroll banners carry the denomination '75 Pfg.' in bold Fraktur, with 'Gutschein' inscribed upper left and a serial number upper right, all set over a warm ochre guilloche underprint within a serrated purple outer border. The lower margin bears the issue text in Fraktur, the place and date 'Nordhausen a. H., den 1. Mai 1921,' the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat,' and two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The upper field carries the heading 'Gutschein der Stadt Nordhausen a/h.' in large Fraktur lettering above a panoramic colour vignette of the Nordhausen skyline viewed from a forested hillside, with silhouetted fir trees in the foreground and the city's church spires rising against a warm amber sky. Two circular denomination medallions bearing the numeral '75' flank a central green cartouche inscribed with a two-line rhyming verse in Fraktur. The printer's name 'Seifert' appears in the lower margin, the whole enclosed within a serrated purple outer border. |
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Nordhausen sits just north of the Harz mountains, and by 1921 it was deep in the inflationary spiral that made small-denomination Notgeld a municipal necessity across Germany. The Stadt Nordhausen issued extensively during this period, with Seifert handling production — a regional printer used for much of the town's emergency currency output.
The reference suffix "c" indicates a recognized variety within the 987.1 sequence, likely distinguished by a paper or color variant rather than a substantive design change.