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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hemdingen (Municipality of Hemdingen) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Hemdingen Amtsbezirk Hemdingen Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Januar 1922 Der Amtsausschuss Der Amtsvorsteher I.A. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-face scenic vignette in detailed letterpress, portraying a roe deer standing among bare winter trees in a snow-covered landscape, with a hare crouching in the foreground. The composition is enclosed within the same geometric diamond-pattern guilloche border as the obverse. Along the lower margin, a banner inscription in Gothic blackletter reads 'Hermann Löns · Mümmelmann', referencing the celebrated German nature writer Hermann Löns and his literary work. |
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Hemdingen is a village in Holstein that almost certainly had fewer than a thousand residents when this note was issued, making it one of the smaller municipal issuers of the German notgeld wave. The 75 Pfennig denomination is itself a telling detail — most emergency money clustered around round figures, and the choice of 75 suggests deliberate denomination laddering within a small local series intended to make change in the absence of adequate coin.
Konrad Hanf of Hamburg printed enormous quantities of notgeld for small north German municipalities during this period, essentially running a commodity operation for local councils scrambling to source emergency currency during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar years.