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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hessisch Oldendorf, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a landscape view of the Hohenstein near Hess.-Oldendorf as seen from the Totental valley, with the Blutbach stream rendered in the foreground in expressive line-art style. A decorative red and blue border frames the design, with heraldic vignettes at left and right — a crowned eagle surmounting a castle with sword, and a shield with crossed swords — while blue starburst cornerpieces carry the denomination numeral '75' at the upper corners and the abbreviation 'Pfg' at the lower corners. Below the vignette, a text panel states the issue date 'Hess.-Oldendorf, 1. Okt. 1921', a redemption notice, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, with the serial number in bold black numerals beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Three narrative vignettes in bold expressionist line-art occupy the central register, illustrating the local legend of a man banished to the Totental by clergy: a solitary figure straining in rain at left, a dramatic struggle scene within a red-framed central panel, and a startled figure at right. A red banner at the top carries the Notgeld title and the issuing city's name, flanked by blue starburst cornerpieces with the numeral '75', while a lower red text panel recounts the legend in Gothic blackletter script, with 'Pfg' cornerpieces at the bottom corners. |
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Hessisch Oldendorf is a small market town on the Weser in Lower Saxony, and its 1921 Notgeld issue was produced during the peak of Germany's municipal emergency currency wave — the period when chronic coin shortages and postwar economic dislocation forced thousands of towns to print their own small-denomination scrip. Edler & Krische in Hanover were a prolific printer of such issues, responsible for a significant share of Lower Saxony's Notgeld output during 1920–1922.
The DeNG reference covering two varieties (606.1–2) suggests minor typographic or color distinctions between printings rather than separate emission dates.