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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Burg an der Wupper (City of Burg an der Wupper) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1922 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on smooth white paper, the obverse carries a line-engraved vignette of Burg Castle perched on a wooded hillside, occupying the upper portion of the note. To the right, the issuer's name appears on a stylized scroll, above an embossed-style circular municipal seal inscribed BURG B.M. SIEGEL ET FREIHEIT with a heraldic lion at centre. The lower panel bears the denomination numeral 75 in ornate script at left and right, flanked by the issuing authority text, date 1.XII.1921, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister; the validity legend Gültig bis 1.IV.22 appears in a decorative cartouche separating the vignette from the denomination panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | Suitbertus verkündigt das Evangelium im bergischen Lande |
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Burg an der Wupper — now absorbed into Solingen — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Municipal Notgeld of this period was a pragmatic local fix, printed in enormous variety across thousands of German towns simultaneously, each issuing authority setting its own denominations and quantities largely without central oversight.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual — most municipal issues gravitated toward rounder values. Whether this reflects a specific wage or fare calculation by the Stadtverwaltung is not documented.