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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Husby (Municipality of Husby) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 110 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown and black bicolour letterpress Notgeld note with an ornate rectangular border enclosing a central vignette of the village of Husby in Angeln, with a church steeple and rural buildings set among trees. Flanking the vignette are two allegorical putti figures rendered in baroque style, each holding garlands of fruit and foliage, with the denomination numeral '75' in a cartouche at the top centre. At lower centre, the municipal coat of arms of Husby is set within a decorative wreath, while the note number and a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorstand appear at the bottom, accompanied by the validity date. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and black bicolour letterpress reverse with ornate foliate scroll borders at left and right, each incorporating a framed denomination panel reading '75 PFENNIG'. The central vignette presents a detailed street scene captioned 'PASSREVISION AN DER STRASSE', showing figures in period dress at a roadside checkpoint, with farm carts, bicycles, and rural buildings in the background beneath a lightly printed sky. The issuer's name 'GEMEINDE HUSBY' is set in bold type within a ruled panel at the top, surmounted by the legend 'NOTGELDSCHEIN'. |
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Husby is a small rural parish in the Schleswig district — territory that had only just been partitioned between Germany and Denmark following the 1920 plebiscite mandated by the Treaty of Versailles. This note was issued the year after that division, when the southern zone, including Husby, voted to remain German. Municipal notgeld from this parish is consequently uncommon; most small Schleswig communities issuing scrip at this time were larger market towns with more pressing liquidity needs.
The 1921 date places it in the inflationary notgeld phase, issued for commercial convenience rather than the collectible "serienscheine" trade that dominated 1922.