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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stecklenberg (Municipality of Stecklenberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is arranged in three vertical panels within a ruled border. The left panel contains a vignette of a medieval hilltop castle on a wooded hillside, above a denomination box inscribed '75 Pf.' The wide central panel bears a colour illustration of a mounted knight on horseback striking down an armoured foot soldier, with a forested landscape in the background and the place name 'Stecklenberg Ostharz.' lettered above. The right panel presents a vignette of a ruined stone tower captioned 'Ruine Lauenburg', with an artist's monogram 'HH' in the lower right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Stecklenberg Ostharz. 75 Pf. Ruine Lauenburg HH |
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Stecklenberg is a small village in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt, and its decision to issue Notgeld in 1921 was entirely unremarkable in the German inflationary spiral — hundreds of municipalities did the same. What occasionally distinguishes Harz-region issues of this period is their deliberate collectibility: many were printed in limited series and sold directly to collectors rather than circulated, generating municipal revenue through philatelic demand rather than economic necessity.
Whether this specific 75 Pfennig piece saw genuine circulation or was absorbed immediately into collector hands is the operative question for condition assessment.