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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bordesholm (Municipality of Bordesholm) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typographically bold design printed in orange and black on a grey-green ground, with a scalloped guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination numeral '75' is rendered in large ornamental orange Gothic script as an underprint, overlaid by the issuer inscription in black letterpress. Below the denomination in Fraktur script, the validity date 'Gültig bis zum 31. Dez. 1921' and the place-and-date line 'Bordesholm den 30. Juni 1921' appear, followed by the authority line 'Der Gemeindevorsteher' and a facsimile signature. |
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| Reverse description | A pictorial vignette in the Arts and Crafts style, printed in yellow, green, and black, occupies the upper two-thirds of the note and shows a seated fisherman viewed from behind, casting a line over a reed-fringed lake with a wooded island in the middle distance; a fish is caught on the line at upper right, beside the denomination '75 Pf.' in Gothic script. A Low German dialectal couplet in Fraktur lettering runs across the upper portion of the vignette, and the artist's signature 'J. Holtz' appears at lower right. A solid black panel at the foot carries the issuer legend in bold white sans-serif capitals. |
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Bordesholm is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and its notgeld series sits squarely in the 1921 wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued not from genuine liquidity crisis by that point, but increasingly for the collector trade that had sprung up around the earlier wartime shortages. Aug. Westphalen was a Flensburg commercial printer, not a security press, and the quality of these small municipal runs reflects that: inks can be inconsistent across the sheet, and registration errors are not uncommon within the series.
The DeNG reference suffix 2-4/4 suggests this is the fourth variant within the 144.2 grouping — worth checking against known plate differences rather than assuming any variation is a printing error.