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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bordesholm (Municipality of Bordesholm) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Typographic Notgeld design printed in red and black on a tan ground, enclosed within a scalloped decorative border. A large red numeral '75' in ornate script serves as an underprint across the centre, overlaid with black letterpress text giving the issuer name, denomination in full, validity date, place and date of issue, and the facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. The printer's imprint 'Aug. Westphalen, Flensburg' appears in small green type along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | A finely executed colour lithograph vignette fills the upper portion of the reverse, showing a panoramic waterside view of Bordesholm with the church spire and Amtshaus set among mature trees, reflected in the foreground pond; the artist's name 'Holtz' appears in the lower right corner of the vignette. The denomination '75 Pf.' is printed in bold script at the upper right. A solid orange-red panel along the lower edge carries the issuer inscription in white serif capitals. |
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Bordesholm is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this 75 Pfennig note belongs to the broader Notgeld phenomenon of 1921, when German municipal authorities — starved of small change following wartime metal shortages and postwar economic dislocation — printed their own emergency issues by the thousands. Aug. Westphalen of Flensburg was a regional printer responsible for a number of Schleswig-Holstein Notgeld series, none of them nationally significant, all of them locally functional.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.2-3/4) indicate minor printing differences within the same issue run, likely color or paper stock variation rather than distinct authorized emissions.