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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse Randow (District of Randow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by the large bold blackletter (Fraktur) denomination inscription 'Fünfundsiebzig Pfg.' set against a rose-red guilloche underprint with a faint vignette watermark-style background motif. A decorative ribbon banner across the lower half carries the payment obligation text in letterpress, identifying the Randower Kreiskommunalkasse as the issuing authority and citing Stettin, dated 1 September, with validity noted as 'GÜLTIG BIS 30 JUNI 1922' at upper left. The lower ribbon panel bears a facsimile signature above the title 'LANDRAT' alongside a printed serial number, all enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with corner flourishes. |
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| Obverse lettering | ERSATZWERTZEICHEN Fünfundfünfzig Pfg. GÜLTIG BIS 30 JUNI 1922 ZAHLT DIE RANDOWER KREISKOMMUNALKASSE DEM EINLIEFERER DIESES GELDSCHEINES STETTIN, DEN 1. SEPTEMBER DER VORSITZENDE D KREISAUSSCHUSSES DES KREISES RANDOW LANDRAT 75 |
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Randow was a rural district in Pomerania, its administrative seat at Stettin, and this note is one of thousands of municipal and district-level Notgeld issues that flooded Germany in 1921 as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation entirely. The Kreiskommunalkasse — the district communal cash office — had no printing mandate of its own; it contracted out to M. Bauchwitz, a Stettin commercial printer with no particular numismatic pedigree, which is exactly what hundreds of similar bodies were doing simultaneously across the Reich.
The DeNG reference places this within a series of nine design variants for the district, suggesting the Randow issue was more elaborate than strictly necessary — a common vanity of the period, when some issuers used Notgeld as a minor revenue source by selling sets to collectors.