75 Pfennig

Brakel is a small town in the Teutoburger Wald district of Westphalia, and its Magistrat issued this 75 Pfennig note as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1920 and 1922 — a period when chronic coin shortages, driven by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding, left local commerce functionally paralyzed without supplementary paper. The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual; most municipal issuers gravitated toward 25, 50, and 1 Mark values, making the odd denomination a deliberate choice, likely to facilitate specific local pricing needs.

The DeNG suffix ".2-2/5" indicates this is the second type of the second series, fifth note — Brakel issued multiple Notgeld series, and distinguishing between them requires careful attention to the reference numbering rather than surface inspection alone.