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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Harzgerode, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green notgeld voucher printed on plain paper, centred on a vignette of an equestrian monument on a stepped pedestal, identified by the inscription 'Mägdesprung' in large Gothic script along the lower edge. The denomination '75' appears in bold numerals at lower left and lower right flanking the monument, with a serial number block at upper right. To the upper left, a four-line verse in German Gothic type reads 'Aus Liebessehnsucht eine Maid sprang von der Trappe kühn…', while validity and issuing authority text — 'Harzgerode, den 7. Juli 1921, Der Magistrat' — is set to the upper right, accompanied by a manuscript signature. The printer's imprint 'Louis Koch · Halberstadt' appears in small type along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein AUS LIEBESSEHNSUCHT EINE MAID SPRANG VON DER 'TRAPPE' KÜHN, HEUT LINDERT SCHMERZ UND ERDENLEIB EIN BLICK IN WALDES-GRÜN! 75 Mägdesprung DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 3 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHER AUFKÜNDIGUNG. HARZGERODE, DEN 7. JULI 1921 DER MAGISTRAT LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT |
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Harzgerode is a small town in the eastern Harz region, and this note is one of dozens of municipal Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany in 1921 as the postwar coin shortage made small change practically impossible to come by. The Louis Koch firm in Halberstadt handled a considerable volume of this local emergency currency across the region — a workaday commercial printer pressed into the service of monetary stopgap.
The 75-Pfennig denomination is among the more awkward of the Notgeld values, chosen not for any standard denomination logic but because municipalities issued in whatever tranches covered their immediate change requirements.