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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neugraben-Hausbruch |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 75 Pf. / Notgeld / der Gemeinde / NEUGRABEN-HAUSBRUCH / Gültig nur innerhalb der Ortschaften Neugraben, Hausbruch, Alt- und Neuwiedenthal bis zum 31. März 1922. / Neugraben-Hausbruch, den 15. August 1921. / Nr. / Of unf Gold is nich beter, as dat / Husbroof-Ziegrobener Notgeld. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a humorous vignette in the Notgeld illustration tradition, printed in brown and red tones, showing a funeral procession halted outside a 'Gast-Wirtschaft' (inn), with mourners in top hats gathered around a coffin in rainy weather; a speech banner within the scene reads 'En wüllt wi noch nehmen.... Und dann sall se weg.....' The title inscription 'Beerdigung mit Hindernissen' arches across the top of the central panel, while the lower legend reads 'in der guten alten Zeit!'. Marginal vertical inscriptions at left and right read 'Im Landkreise Harburg 187..' and 'Alte Leute wissen's noch!', and the denomination '75' appears in all four corners against a fine crosshatch underprint border. |
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Neugraben-Hausbruch was a small community southwest of Hamburg, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small change that plagued the Weimar economy following the war. The 75 Pfennig denomination is an odd one, chosen specifically because it didn't duplicate what the Reichsbank was managing to supply.
These hyperlocal issues were theoretically redeemable at the issuing municipality but in practice many were never returned, which is the main reason so many survive today in uncirculated condition — collectors absorbed them almost immediately.