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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Soltau (City of Soltau) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern 75 Pfennig In keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr 75 Pfennig |
| Reverse description | Printed in bright yellow, orange, dark green, and navy blue on cream paper, the reverse carries a central map of Germany rendered in yellow and orange, with territories lost under the Treaty of Versailles highlighted, flanked on either side by oak trees entwined with black-white-red ribbons. Denomination roundels reading '75 Pfennig' appear in the upper corners, and the patriotic verse 'Ans Vaterland, ans teure, schließ dich an, das halte fest mit deinem ganzen Herzen!' is inscribed diagonally across the map. A validity notice and the issuing authority designation 'S.V. SOLTAU' with a manuscript signature appear at lower right. |
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Soltau's 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency, produced as hyperinflation began accelerating beyond the capacity of the Reichsbank to supply adequate low-denomination coinage and notes. Cities across Lower Saxony printed their own stopgap issues, most through regional lithographers, and Soltau was no exception — a small Lüneburg Heath market town with no particular monetary history, issuing paper out of administrative necessity rather than civic pride.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is characteristic of the period's awkward arithmetic: change-making in 1922 required denominations that would have seemed absurd a decade earlier.