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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Papenburg (City of Papenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ground note with a bold magenta cross motif extending to all four edges, evoking the city arms of Papenburg. At the centre, an ornate oval cartouche with scrollwork border carries the three-line inscription NOTGELD / DER STADT / PAPENBURG. Each corner bears a black-framed panel with the denomination numerals '75' in magenta and the abbreviation 'Pf.' in yellow. Below the cross, the issue date 'Papenburg, den 14. November 1921.' appears at lower left, with a manuscript signature under the authority line 'Der Magistrat:' at lower right; the printer's imprint GERHARD STALLING · OLDENBURG runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD ·PAPENBURG· 75 Pf. Dat Geld mot man van dei Liie nähmen Van dei Böme schüdden kann man't nich J. Berck 1921 |
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Papenburg's 1921 Notgeld issue was handled by Gerhard Stalling, a long-established Oldenburg printer with a serious commercial pedigree — the firm had been operating since the eighteenth century and produced work well above the average quality of municipal emergency currency flooding German markets at the time. The 75 Pfennig denomination is characteristic of the fractional chaos of early Weimar inflation, when municipalities were forced to paper over coin shortages with locally sanctioned scrip.
Stalling's Papenburg series attracted collector interest almost immediately upon issue — a pattern common to well-printed Notgeld, where speculative demand from philatelists sometimes exceeded genuine local circulation.