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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kurverwaltung Sankt Andreasberg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Buchdruckerei Karl Gieseke, Bad Lauterberg, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a lively winter sports scene set in the Harz Mountains, rendered in coloured letterpress. A skier in a striped jersey descends a snow-covered slope in the centre of the composition, poles raised, with a snow-laden fir forest receding into the background at left. A large pine branch with a cone occupies the upper right corner alongside the bold numeral "75". The exclamation "Schie-Heil!" appears at lower right, and the designer's signature "Heise" is inscribed near the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Höhenkurort und Wintersportplatz St. Andreasberg im Harz 75 Schie-Heil! Heise |
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Sankt Andreasberg is a small silver-mining town in the Harz Mountains — one of the oldest such settlements in the region, with extraction dating to the early sixteenth century. By 1921 the mines had long been exhausted, and the town's economy had shifted almost entirely to health tourism, which is precisely why the issuing authority here is a Kurverwaltung, a spa administration, rather than a municipality or savings bank. Notgeld issued by spa offices is not common; most resort towns left currency matters to local civic bodies.
Printed by Karl Gieseke in nearby Bad Lauterberg, a modest regional press more accustomed to letterheads than banknotes.