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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amtsausschuss Neustadt in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Dark-ground note printed in black, red, and gold with a bold Gothic script title reading 'Notgeld Amt Neustadt in Meckl.' across the upper field, flanked by the denomination '75' at left and 'PF.' at right in corner cartouches. A central oval vignette carries a patriotic allegorical composition encircled by the legend 'EINIG WAR NOCH NIE WARD DEUTSCHLAND ÜBERWUNDEN WENN ES', with crossed flags, an olive branch, and a cross motif at its centre. Below, text panels read 'Gebt uns unsere Kolonien wieder!' at the sides, with validity clauses and the issuing authority 'Der Amtsausschuss:' accompanied by a manuscript facsimile signature, the date 'April 1922', and the series designation 'Serie II' at top; designer credit 'ENTWURF HEINBERG' appears in the upper margin. |
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| Reverse description | Dark-ground note in black, red, and gold with bold denomination numerals '75' and 'PF.' in the upper left and right corners against the black border. The central vignette, presented within a large arched frame, renders a coloured lithographic landscape of Marianen-Insel Pagan, a former German colonial Pacific island, with palm trees in the foreground, a coastal settlement, volcanic headland, and sea. Flanking the arch, white palm tree vignettes decorate the side panels, and a lower text banner carries a patriotic verse attributed to Th. Körner. |
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Neustadt in Mecklenburg issued this Notgeld note in 1922, well into the inflationary spiral that was already making small-denomination emergency currency an administrative headache for local authorities across Germany. By this point, the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate coinage had pushed the burden of liquidity onto district councils, municipal bodies, and even private firms — the Amtsausschuss here being the district committee, a rural administrative tier rather than a town council proper.
The designer credit "Heinberg" is not uncommon in Mecklenburg Notgeld of this period, though documentation on the individual remains thin. Whether the work was commissioned locally or through a regional printing broker is unclear from the note itself.