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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse zu Diepholz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is dominated by a dark arched panel with the denomination numeral '75' in large script at each corner. A central vignette shows a stylised tower rising from a hillock, with radiating sunburst lines spreading outward across the tan field; the names of villages and municipalities within the Diepholz district are inscribed along these rays in Gothic lettering. The title legend 'Gutschein für den Kreis Diepholz' curves along the top arc in decorative Fraktur script, while the lower panel carries the redemption text, issue date of 15 September 1921, a serial number, and manuscript signatures of the Vorsitzender and Direktor. |
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| Reverse lettering | Denn so ein Schwein das steckt so recht Voll Trotz und Eigensinn. Wohin man's gerne haben möcht Da wills durchaus nicht hin. Casten & Suhling, Bremen. |
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Diepholz is a small Lower Saxon market town, and the Kreissparkasse — a district savings bank rather than a municipal authority — was an unusual issuer for Notgeld of this type. Most savings institutions avoided emergency currency issuance, preferring to leave it to local chambers of commerce or municipal councils. That this one stepped in suggests the 75 Pfennig denomination was filling a specific gap in small change availability during the severe coin shortage of 1921.
Casten & Suhling were a Bremen commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house. The distinction matters — production quality on their Notgeld work is variable across the series.