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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Borstel (Com.-Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on a light ground with a decorative red outer border. At centre top, a circular vignette encloses a stylised tree with spreading branches; the denomination '75 Pfennig' appears in Gothic blackletter type to both the left and right of the vignette. A bold banner below carries the issuing authority inscription 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BORSTEL' with the subordinate legend '(COM.-AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG)' beneath; a validity clause in italic script states that the note loses its validity two weeks after public notice in the Pinneberger Tagblatt and Lockstedter Anzeiger. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower left and lower right, attributed respectively to the Communal District Administrator (COM.-AMTSVORSTEHER) and the Finance Committee (DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS), with a red control stamp at centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm ochre, red, and black, with a thin red inner border set within a dark outer frame. The upper portion is occupied by a large landscape vignette of a traditional Lower Saxon farmstead (Niedersächsischer Bauernhof), rendered in a folk-art woodcut style, with thatched outbuildings flanking a red-painted main farmhouse set among trees against a sky with clouds. The denomination numeral '75' appears in red at both lower corners, with the descriptive legend 'Niedersächsischer Bauernhof' centred in the lower panel in Gothic script. |
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Borstel was a small rural commune within the Pinneberg administrative district of Schleswig-Holstein, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places this squarely in the second wave of German emergency money — by then a semi-commercial phenomenon as much as a practical response to coin shortages. Many communes of comparable size contracted local or regional printers and produced short series specifically aimed at collectors, who by 1921 were actively driving demand. Whether this 75 Pfennig denomination actually circulated meaningfully in Borstel itself is doubtful.
The DeNG reference confirms this as the sixth note in a six-piece series.