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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Husby (Municipality of Husby) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-brown tones, the obverse centres on a vignette of the Ehrenfriedhof (war cemetery) at Husby in Angeln, rendered with a domed memorial pavilion flanked by rows of trees and a colonnaded building in the foreground. Two baroque-style putti occupy the lateral margins, and the municipal coat of arms of Husby is positioned in the lower centre. The serial number appears at lower left, with the validity date and facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELDSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE 75 HUSBY in ANGELN Ehrenfriedhof Nr. GÜLTIG BIS 15. DEZEMBER 1921. DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND: |
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Husby sits in Schleswig, the contested border region between Germany and Denmark that had only just been partitioned by plebiscite in 1921 — the same year this note was issued. The timing is not coincidental. The partition disrupted local trade networks and created immediate small-change shortages in communities on both sides of the new line, driving hundreds of municipalities to print their own Notgeld.
This 75 Pfennig denomination is an odd value, neither a quarter nor a half mark, which suggests it was calibrated to a specific local pricing need rather than issued as part of a tidy denominational set.