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75 Pfennig

Issuer Königsaue, Municipality of
Year 1921
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Reverse lettering 75 Des Königs-Aue 75 Pfg Der Ort von Beute Pfg W. Dockhorn
(Translation: 75 The King's Meadow 75 Pfg The location of prey Pfg W. Dockhorn)
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Königsaue is a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly minor German municipalities, it turned to Notgeld in the early 1920s to relieve a genuine small-change shortage — federal coinage could not keep pace with the chaotic economic conditions following the First World War. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled a significant volume of Notgeld commissions from towns across the area, producing workmanlike runs at low cost.

The watermark security feature is atypical for municipal issues at this denomination and scale — most comparable village Notgeld relied on print complexity alone rather than security paper.

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