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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Swinemünde |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width colour vignette of the Swinemünde harbour, with moored sailing boats at a quay in the foreground and the tall lighthouse rising at right against an open sky with seagulls in flight. Below the vignette, two dark side panels each bear the denomination '75' in red with a stylised wave device, flanking a central white text cartouche containing a four-line patriotic poem in two columns, with the verse number '3' above and the artist's signature 'Haupner' at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Vom ragenden Turme Aus schwindelnder Höh' Da grüz ich das Eiland, Die brandende See. Mein Jubelruf tönt In den Himmel hinein Du liebliche Heimat Sollst blühn und gedeihn! |
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Swinemünde's municipal savings bank issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that plagued German towns in the early Weimar years — a period when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down as metal prices outpaced face values. Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were prolific producers of Notgeld for Silesian and Pomeranian municipalities during this window, turning out hundreds of distinct local issues on short runs.
The 75-Pfennig denomination is among the more awkward values in the Notgeld canon, chosen specifically to fill gaps the standard 50- and 100-Pfennig pieces couldn't cover in everyday transactions.