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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Husby (Municipality of Husby) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 15 December 1921 |
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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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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELDSCHEIN GEMEINDE HUSBY PASSREVISION AM ZUGE HUSBY 75 PFENNIG 75 PFENNIG |
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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.