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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gatersleben, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Gatersleber Warte, a ruined medieval tower set amid trees, with a stone-breaker figure and horse-drawn cart in the foreground. The denomination '75' appears in large Gothic numerals at upper left and right, with 'Gatersleben' as the issuer name across the top. Poetic verse in Fraktur script flanks the vignette on both sides; the date 'den 30.7.1921' and the issuing authority 'Der Gemeindevorstand' with a handwritten signature appear at lower right, with the printer's imprint 'Louis Koch – Halberstadt' along the bottom margin and the artist's signature 'W. Dockhorn' at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Colourful illustrated vignette in a whimsical folk-art style referencing Wilhelm Busch's characters Max and Moritz, with a central oval cartouche containing the two mischievous boys in half-length portrait, surrounded by scattered geese and barnyard animals. A large decorative red capital 'T' initiates the verse at upper left, and the denomination '75' is printed in bold red numerals at lower right. Three lines of rhyming Fraktur verse appear above and below the central vignette. |
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Gatersleben is a small agricultural village in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly obscure German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 75 Pfennig denomination was common in this period — smaller communities often issued fractional values in sets, typically three to six pieces, designed to circulate locally and frequently to attract collectors willing to pay face value without ever spending the notes.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous communities across the district. W. Dockhorn's design credit places this firmly in the artistically ambitious end of the series.