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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neinstedt am Harz (Municipality of Neinstedt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a decorative border of stylised oak-leaf foliage rendered in green, enclosing a cream field with the issuing authority's title and a historical verse in German Kurrent script relating to the Neinstedter Schlüssel- und Klöppelkrieg of 1661. A lower panel in pale blue carries the denomination numeral '75' in Gothic script at each corner, the validity clause, place and date of issue, and a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorstand; the printer's imprint 'Druckerei Poessl, Bad Suderode' appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Neinstedt am Harz Et war im 1661. Jahr. Da kam Halberstadt in Wut, et harre Blankenbörg in Neinsdidde besett de Pfarre, ohne tau fra'n. De Krieg fung ān. Der Schein gilt noch 1 Mon. nach Aufruf. Neinstedt, im Sept. 1921 Der Gemeindevorst. 75 |
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Neinstedt am Harz is a small village in the Selke valley, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld not out of genuine coin shortage — that crisis had largely passed — but because the local collector market had turned these small notes into a minor cottage industry. Series were designed to be collected as sets, sold to visitors and hobbyists, and rarely spent. Druckerei Poessl in nearby Bad Suderode handled a number of these regional issues, making it a known printer for Harz-area Notgeld.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is the middle value of a six-note run, as the reference suffix suggests.