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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Siedenburg, Town of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a green foliate border framing the entire design. At centre, a vignette of the Flecken Siedenburg manor house set among trees, enclosed within an arched band carrying Low German dialect mottoes in curved lettering. At upper centre, a yellow cartouche bears the issuer title. Flanking the cartouche at upper left and right are two golden pigs, each overlying a medallion with the denomination numeral '75'. A yellow panel at the foot carries the validity date and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DES FLECKENS SIEDENBURG DAT GEID DAT MAAKT ET NICH ALLEEN. BLOSS ARBEIT BRINGT UNS VPDEVEN. DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 15. XII. 1921. DER BÜRGERMEISTER |
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| Comments |
Siedenburg is a small town in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. The printing figures in the catalog reference — 20,000 each for two variants — are typical of the lower end of municipal print runs, suggesting limited local demand rather than any deliberate restriction.
The DeNG reference numbers 1885 and 1886 distinguish the two issues, almost certainly differing by a minor typographic or color variation rather than any substantive design change.