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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Vegesack (City Administration of Vegesack) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Tan-toned reverse within a double-rule border, with the denomination '75 Pfennig 75' inscribed at the top in Gothic script. The central vignette, signed 'RUSCHE' at lower left, presents a line-drawn scene of the paddle steamer 'Gazelle' on the Weser river with the wooded Vegesacker Berge hillside in the background. A band of interlocking cross-hatched ornament runs below the vignette, above the bold letterpress imprint 'STADT VEGESACK', with the printer's imprint 'DRUCK C. A. NICOLAUS, BREMEN.' at the lower left corner. Vertical inscriptions reading 'DIE // GAZELLE //' and 'VOR · DEM · VEGESACKER · BERGE' appear along the left and right inner margins respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 Pfennig 75 DIE // GAZELLE // VOR · DEM · VEGESACKER · BERGE STADT VEGESACK DRUCK C. A. NICOLAUS, BREMEN. |
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Vegesack was an independent port town on the Weser — Bremen's deep-water anchorage before the river was dredged — but by 1921 it had been incorporated into Greater Bremen for nearly two decades. The city administration issuing Notgeld under its own name that year was asserting a civic identity that was, strictly speaking, already obsolete. The 75 Pfennig denomination is itself characteristic of the inflationary moment: a value that would have been meaningless in peacetime coinage suddenly needed paper backing.
C. A. Nicolaus was a Bremen printing house that handled multiple Notgeld commissions from municipalities across the region during this period. The designer credit to Rusche — first name unrecorded in most references — is typical of the small-studio work that fed the Notgeld trade.