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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grömitz (Municipality of Grömitz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The upper black banner repeats the bold Fraktur heading, beneath which a colourful central vignette portrays the Baltic seaside resort scene: a sandy dune in the foreground bears the inscription 'Notgeldburg' in Gothic script, with a tall stone tower or beacon at centre, multiple flagpoles strung with red-and-white bunting, promenading figures, a long pier extending into the teal sea, and a vessel on the horizon. The lower red panel contains a four-line rhyming verse in Fraktur, flanked by the denomination '75 PFG' in large red numerals on black ground at both lower corners. |
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| Signature(s) | Westphal and Herst Becker |
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Grömitz is a small Baltic coastal town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note is part of the vast Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1920 and 1922 — a period when the Reichsbank's coin shortage was so severe that towns, companies, and even individual businesses issued their own fractional paper currency to keep local commerce moving. Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck handled a substantial volume of this regional municipal work, making them one of the more prolific printers of northern German Kleingeldscheine.
The DeNG reference catalogues three known variants (0474.1–3/4), distinguished by minor typographic or color differences — a common feature of Borchers runs where print batches were not always perfectly consistent.