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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Harzgerode, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein AUS LIEBESSEHNSUCHT EINE MAID SPRANG VON DER "TRAPPE" KÜHN; HEUT LINDERT SCHMERZ UND ERDENLEID EIN BLICK IN WALDESGRÜN! 75 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 3 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHER AUFKÜNDIGUNG HARZGERODE, DEN 7 JULI 1921 DER MAGISTRAT LOUIS KOCH HALBERSTADT Mägdesprung |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 75 Pf. 75 Mägdesprung |
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Harzgerode is a small town in the eastern Harz mountains, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-change shortage that had persisted since the war years. The Louis Koch printing house in Halberstadt produced notes for numerous Harz-region communities during this period, working from locally commissioned designs rather than standardized templates.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is among the more awkward values in the Notgeld canon, chosen specifically because the Reichsbank's coin supply had collapsed at precisely that level of everyday transaction.