75 Pfennig

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.