Catalog
75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Trittau (Municipality of Trittau) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette of a two-storey bourgeois villa with a stepped gable and red-accented window shutters, set among trees, printed in a multicolour lithographic style. The denomination numeral '75' appears in each corner flanked by the abbreviation 'Pfg' on both lateral panels, all set against a teal-green underprint with a scattered red dot pattern. The heading 'Notgeld' in ornate red script dominates the upper register, with the locality inscription 'für Trittau i/Holst.' lettered below the vignette in blackletter. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld 75 Pfg 75 Pfg 75 75 für Trittau i/Holst. |
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Trittau is a small market town in Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — substitute small change — to fill the vacuum left by hoarded and melted coinage during the inflationary spiral. The 75 Pfennig denomination sits in an awkward middle register: too large for everyday micro-transactions, too small to matter once hyperinflation accelerated through 1922 into 1923.
The DeNG suffix variants .2 and .3 typically denote serial number ranges or minor typographic differences in the overprint — distinctions that matter to specialists cataloging the full Trittau series but rarely affect valuation significantly between the two.