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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neustettin (City of Neustettin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark-toned notgeld note with a bold decorative border enclosing three vertical panels against a black ground. The central panel carries the municipal coat of arms of Neustettin — a golden shield bearing a black eagle with a fish in its talons — flanked left and right by circular red denomination vignettes each reading '75 Pf.' surrounded by yellow star motifs and scroll ornaments. Below the coat of arms, the issuing authority 'NEUSTETTIN 15. NOVEMBER 1921' appears at lower left and 'DER MAGISTRAT' with two facsimile signatures at lower right. A three-line redemption clause in German script occupies the bottom panel, with the printer's imprint 'Druck von Adolf Förker Leipzig' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Monochrome vignette in sepia tones rendered in a fine pen-and-ink engraving style, occupying the full face within a scalloped border. The central view shows Neustettin's Marktplatz with the town hall and its square medieval clock tower dominating the composition; figures of pedestrians animate the foreground square. A circular denomination cartouche '75 Pf.' is placed in the upper left corner, and the caption 'Der Marktplatz' appears in cursive script at the upper right. The artist's signature 'Wegner-Güterboy' is inscribed at the lower left margin. |
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Neustettin — now Szczecinek in northwestern Poland — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Notgeld during the early 1920s as small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation entirely. The city's 1921 series was printed by Adolf Forker in Leipzig, a firm that handled a substantial volume of provincial Notgeld commissions during this period and produced competent if unremarkable work across many issues.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is the awkward middle child of most Notgeld sets — too high for everyday small transactions, too low for anything significant, which likely kept actual handling of this value lighter than companion notes.