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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Soltau (City of Soltau) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 75 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a tall monumental statue on a tiered pedestal against a blue sky with stylized clouds, rendered in a letterpress illustrative style and initialled 'F.G.' at lower right. Flanking the central image on both left and right panels, the denomination '75 Pfennig' appears twice within decorative lozenge cartouches. Gothic blackletter text fills both lateral fields, forming a patriotic verse. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette occupies a map of Germany in yellow with orange-highlighted eastern territories, flanked on each side by oak trees intertwined with black-red-gold tricolour ribbon motifs. A patriotic verse is inscribed diagonally across the map face, and a validity notice with the issuing authority 'S.V. SOLTAU' and a manuscript signature appears at lower right. The top and bottom borders carry bold Gothic blackletter inscriptions. |
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Soltau's 1922 Notgeld issues belong to the second and more commercially calculated wave of German emergency money — by this point, many municipalities were printing series specifically to sell to collectors, a practice that became widespread enough that the Reichsbank eventually cracked down on it. Whether this 75 Pfennig piece saw genuine circulation or was absorbed into collector portfolios almost immediately is a question that follows most small-town Notgeld of this vintage.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is itself a tell — an odd value with no practical precedent in normal German coinage, chosen precisely because novelty drove collector demand.