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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Flecken Siedenburg (Town of Siedenburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in vivid polychrome letterpress on a yellow and blue ground, enclosed by a decorative green foliate border. A central yellow cartouche at the top carries the issuer's title, below which a vignette presents the manor house of Siedenburg set amid trees in a landscape scene; flanking the cartouche at upper left and right are two golden pigs, each resting atop a circular denomination medallion bearing the numeral '75'. A yellow panel at the base carries the validity inscription and the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister, with a Low German motto arching across the middle field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in polychrome letterpress with a yellow surround and green foliate outer border. A central rectangular vignette presents a streetscape of traditional half-timbered and red-roofed houses lining a village road, flanked by mature trees, rendered in a detailed illustrative style. Low German dialect inscriptions appear on all four sides of the yellow margin, with the bottom-edge text printed inverted. |
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Siedenburg is a small village in Lower Saxony — population well under a thousand even today — which makes its participation in the Notgeld phenomenon of the early Weimar years entirely typical of the period's administrative chaos. Hundreds of German municipalities, no matter how minor, were authorized to issue their own emergency fractional currency when the Reichsbank failed to keep small denominations in circulation.
The single Bürgermeister signature from Hittmers reflects the reality that in a Flecken of this size, there was no separate treasury or finance official to countersign. One man, one stamp, legal tender by necessity.