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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ritterhude (Municipality of Ritterhude) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 93 × 57 mm |
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| Obverse description | Salmon and olive-green Notgeld note with a central circular vignette bearing the denomination numeral '75' framed by a deer skull with antlers, set against a green guilloche underprint. Flanking the central vignette are two columns of Low German verse text, with the header 'Not-Geld Ritterhude' in Gothic blackletter script across the top and denomination shields in the upper corners. The lower panel carries a validity clause in German script, followed by the place name, year, serial number prefix, and a manuscript signature above the title 'Gemeindevorsteher'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Not-Geld Ritterhude 75 Is de Not ok hannig grot, Michel lat den Kopp nich hangen raff di up den brüst nich bangen Dieses Notgeld verliert seine Gültigkeit 2 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in dem Kreisblatt für den Kreis Osterholz, den Bremer Nachrichten und der deutschen Sparkassenzeitung. Die Sparkasse Hannover Ritterhude 1921 Nr. A Gemeindevorsteher |
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Ritterhude is a small village north of Bremen, and like hundreds of similarly minor German municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the postwar credit crunch of 1920–1921, when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The Casten & Suhling print firm in Bremen handled a substantial volume of regional Notgeld work during this period, supplying notes to numerous Lower Saxon municipalities that lacked any practical alternative.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is characteristic of the second wave of municipal Notgeld, when issuers had learned that unusual face values attracted collector interest and slowed redemption — effectively giving the issuing body a small float.