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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kellenhusen (Municipality of Kellenhusen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 92 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Dütschlands starkste Eek un dicksten Mann, Seht sik in Ostseebad Kellenhusen an. 75 75 550 Pfund Notgeld des Ostseebades Kellenhusen Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeindekasse eingelöst gegen Vorzeigung spätestens einen Monat nach öffentl. Bekanntgabe Der Gemeindevorstand |
| Reverse description | The reverse is framed by a red floral scroll border with a Low German poem in large italic script running along all four outer margins. The central vignette shows a detailed engraving of a massive, ancient twin-trunked oak tree with a dense canopy, captioned 'Kronen-Eiche' and 'Jahr 1000' within the image, with the notation 'Umfang ca. 10 m' in the lower right corner. The denomination numeral '75' appears in red at each lower corner of the central panel, and the issuer inscription 'Notgeld des Ostseebades Kellenhusen' is printed in bold along the bottom margin. |
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Kellenhusen is a tiny Baltic coast resort village in Holstein — in 1921 it had perhaps a few hundred permanent residents. Like hundreds of similarly small German municipalities that year, it issued Notgeld to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmarks circulating in the post-WWI inflation spiral. The printer C. Fränckel Nchfg. C. Will was a local Oldenburg firm that handled several such regional issues, unremarkable in equipment but serviceable for short-run municipal work.
The DeNG reference groups three or four distinct design variants under a single parent number, suggesting the municipality ordered a matched set simultaneously rather than issuing them in sequence.