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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Darlingerode (Municipality of Darlingerode) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Louis Koch, Halberstadt, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a colour lithographic landscape view of a rural lane leading to a red-roofed farmhouse amid lush trees against a wooded hillside, rendered in green, brown, and red tones with a grey sky. Tall stylised fir-tree ornamental borders in dark green occupy the left and right panels, each bearing the large red denomination numeral '75' in the upper corner. A white cartouche at foot centre carries the place name in bold Gothic lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | Darlingerode a. Hz. |
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Darlingerode is a village in the Harz foothills — in 1921, a place of perhaps a few hundred residents. That a municipality this small was issuing its own fractional emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds: the post-WWI Notgeld wave saw thousands of German towns, parishes, and even individual businesses print their own scrip to compensate for a chronic shortage of official small-denomination coins. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand.
Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous small Harz-area issuers during this period. The Gra#258.1-3/3 designation suggests three distinct serial or design variants within the issue.