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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bordesholm (Municipality of Bordesholm) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width landscape vignette in muted green and ochre tones, executed in a finely detailed letterpress style and signed 'Holtz' in the lower right corner. The scene presents a view across an open meadow toward the Bordesholmer See, with groups of mature trees framing both sides and reeds at the water's edge; the inscription 'Ausblick auf den See' appears in cursive script at the upper left, while the denomination '75 Pf.' is set in bold Gothic numerals at the upper right. A broad ochre and black banner across the foot of the note carries the legend 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BORDESHOLM' in bold sans-serif capitals. |
| Reverse lettering | Ausblick auf den See 75 Pf. NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BORDESHOLM |
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Bordesholm is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and its municipal emergency money issues of 1921 fall squarely within the first wave of German Kleingeldersatz — the small-change substitutes that flooded local economies as coin metal was hoarded and official currency failed to keep pace with postwar demand. Aug. Westphalen in Flensburg was a regional printer serving numerous Schleswig-Holstein municipalities during this period, which accounts for a certain consistency in paper quality and typographic execution across notes from different issuers in the same district.
The reference suffix 2/4 suggests this is the second type, fourth variety — indicating the series saw meaningful local revision, not a single undifferentiated print run.