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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Leopoldshall (City of Leopoldshall) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Mit Menschen- u. Maschinenkraft wird köstlich Gut zu Tag geschafft; was man aus dunklen Felsen brach, bringt reiche Ernte am lichten Tag. Ohne Kalidüngung Volldüngung einschl. Kali Leopoldshall, d. 25. Juli 1921 Der Magistrat LOUIS KOCH, HALBERSTADT Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a photographic-style view of the Kali-Forschungsanstalt (Potash Research Institute) building in Leopoldshall, a multi-storey brick structure rendered in fine letterpress. Vertical side borders carry repeating motifs of crossed mining hammers interspersed with wheat ears, alluding to the town's dual mining and agricultural heritage. The denomination "75 Pfg." appears in bold white numerals on dark panels at lower left and right, with the issuer's title in a scroll at the top and the thematic inscription "Kali- und Steinsalzgewinnung" in a banner at the foot. |
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Leopoldshall was a small industrial town in the Prussian province of Saxony, best known as the site of significant potash mining operations. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the early 1920s Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage that followed WWI's economic disruption — it issued its own emergency paper, or Notgeld, to keep local commerce moving when Reichsbank coin had effectively disappeared from circulation.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist currency house, which accounts for the modest production quality typical of his municipal Notgeld contracts throughout this period.