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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Benneckenstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Panoramic vignette of Benneckenstein town with church steeple and Harz hills in olive-green underprint. Denomination 75 Pfennig in bold numerals at lower left, with issuer text and facsimile signature of the Magistrat below. |
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| Reverse description | Left panel bears an oak tree vignette with acorns in dark ink on olive ground, alongside large denomination numeral 75. Right panel carries a multi-stanza German verse text and redemption notice. |
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Benneckenstein is a small town in the Harz region, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its local authority stepped in to plug the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage that had plagued everyday commerce since the war. This 75 Pfennig note is one of five values in the series (0073.1 through 0073.5), all issued simultaneously in July 1921 under the dual signature of Ruckl and Liebsmith.
H. Thiele's design credit suggests local or regional production rather than one of the major Notgeld printers. The Harz towns were particularly prolific Notgeld issuers, partly for genuine monetary need and partly because the collector market for pictorial emergency notes had already become a secondary revenue stream by mid-1921.