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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Harzgerode (City of Harzgerode) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 86 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries the polychrome municipal coat of arms of Harzgerode — a red triple-towered castle on a white shield with green foliate mantling — set against a pale green stippled underprint, with dark green vertical bars framing the composition at left and centre. The serial number appears in black at upper left, and the issuer name HARZGERODE is lettered in bold black at the foot of the vignette. To the right of the central dividing bar, a rhyming German couplet referencing the old castle and fossils is set above the large red numeral 75, beneath which the validity clause, issuer name, date Den 7. Juli 1921, and a facsimile signature of Der Magistrat are printed in black, with the printer's imprint LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT centred along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a colour vignette of the Harzgerode Schloss (castle), rendered in an illustrative letterpress style with red-roofed multi-storey buildings set among mature trees and ornamental shrubbery, with a street lamp visible in the foreground. A bold geometric zigzag border in dark green, red, and tan frames the entire field on all four sides. The denomination numeral 75 appears in red at upper right, the town name HARZGERODE runs along the top within the border, and the caption DAS · SCHLOSS is inscribed in large letters across the lower border. |
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Harzgerode's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — printed not from genuine financial necessity by that point, but increasingly for the collector trade that had exploded around these small-town issues. Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which is exactly the kind of firm that handled hundreds of these contracts across Saxony-Anhalt in 1920–22.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is a collector's artifact of the inflation period's odd arithmetic — a value that made little practical sense for daily transactions but appeared constantly in sets designed to be sold complete rather than spent.