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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ritterhude (Municipality of Ritterhude) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Ritterhude 75 Pfg. Fr. Ludwig Jahn. Wer etwas Treffliches leisten will, Hätt gern was Großes geboren, Der sammle still u. unerschlafft, Im kleinsten Punkte die höchste Kraft. Fehlt zum geplanten Werke Dir die kraft. Entreiße Dich des Zweifels banger Haft. Der Wille ist es, der die Tat verschafft, In ihm birgt sich was Dir noch fehlt: Die Kraft. DIESER-SCHEIN-VERLIERT-DIE-GÜLTIGKEIT-2 MONATE-NACH-ÖFFENTLICHER-AUFKÜNDIGUNG: GEMEINDEVORSTEHER RITTERHUDE, DEN 15 MAI 1921 Nr. |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed view of the Turnhalle (gymnasium hall) in Ritterhude, labeled 'TURNHALLE' above and attributed below to '"GEBRÜDER RIES STIFTUNG NEW YORK"', rendered in a polychrome lithographic style with warm ochre tones. Silhouette figures of gymnasts — one carrying a flag at left, one holding a laurel wreath at right — stand within flanking panels bearing motivational inscriptions in Gothic script. The lower band, printed in dark purple, carries the denomination '75' in diamond cartouches at each corner and the legend 'Notgeld fünfundsiebzig Pfennig' in bold blackletter, with 'Gemeinde Ritterhude' in large Gothic script across the upper portion of the note. |
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Ritterhude is a small village north of Bremen, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own notgeld when small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation during the postwar inflationary spiral. The Casten & Suhling imprint is a Bremen commercial printer, not a specialist currency house — competent work, but the notes were produced to local order rather than any centralized design scheme.
The DeNG reference suffix ".2-3/3" indicates this is the third type in a grouped series, suggesting Ritterhude issued multiple notgeld denominations or variants through the same printer in the same year.