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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Eldagsen, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 February 1922 |
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| Reverse description | The upper two-thirds of the reverse is occupied by a colour-printed vignette of a broad tree-lined avenue in Eldagsen, rendered in a lithographic illustrative style with half-timbered and gabled townhouses receding in perspective and figures strolling along the cobbled street. The denomination '75' appears in large stylised numerals in each of the four corners against a black border with a wave-pattern underprint. A cream-coloured text panel at the lower centre carries a Low German quotation attributed to Duke Erich of Calenberg, dated 1495. |
| Reverse lettering | "Dat Land twischen Deister un Leine Dat is et rechte dat ek meine." Düsse Wore sprok Hertog Erich von Calenbarg im Jahre 1495. Un seit der Tied sind wie echte Calenbarger. |
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Eldagsen was a small town in the Prussian province of Hanover, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it resorted to issuing its own Kleingeldersatz — substitute small change — as postwar inflation eroded the practical value of official coinage and the Reichsbank struggled to keep low denominations in circulation. This note belongs to that wave of locally authorized Notgeld, produced in enormous variety across Germany between roughly 1919 and 1922.
The DeNG 2#327 series lists multiple variants, suggesting Eldagsen issued at least a small run with distinguishable printing or paper differences — typical of municipal issues sourced from regional printers working under inconsistent conditions.