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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neubrandenburg (City of Neubrandenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green and ochre notgeld note with the town name 'Neubrandenburg' in bold Gothic script across the top banner. The central vignette presents a lively tavern scene in the Ratskeller style, rendered in fine line engraving, with figures gathered around tables and a standing figure to the right. The denomination '75' appears in large white numerals on both lower left and right against dark olive panels, with the issue date 'Neubrandenburg den 2. Juli 1921' at left, two manuscript signatures at right, and a redemption notice and Low German literary quotation with attribution along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour notgeld note with a central vignette in colour lithography showing a man standing behind a large wooden barrel, set within a decorative architectural frame with red pilasters and lace curtains. Two circular underprint medallions flank the central image — one bearing a loaf of bread at left, one a fish at right — evoking themes of civic sustenance. The denomination '75' appears in red at all four corners, and 'Neubrandenburg' is set in large white Gothic lettering across a black band at the foot of the note, with a Low German quotation from Fritz Reuter's 'Ut mine Stromtid' inscribed on a ribbon below the vignette. |
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Neubrandenburg's 1921 Notgeld series belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued not from genuine coin shortage, as in 1914–1918, but from the chronic small-denomination scarcity that persisted well into the inflation years. By 1921, many towns had quietly turned the format into a collectible proposition, designing attractive multicolor series aimed squarely at the thriving Notgeld collector market. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a mid-tier regional printer who handled a number of these civic commissions across northern and central Germany.
The reference suffix "9/9" indicates the ninth note in a complete set of nine — the full run being a prerequisite for collectors, which drove deliberate scarcity engineering on certain values.