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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse zu Güstrow |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on orange paper, the note is dominated by a geometric border of diagonal lozenges and angular motifs framing the central text panel. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large blackletter type at left and right margins, with 'GÜSTROW' spelled out in stylized Gothic lettering along the upper and lower borders. The central vignette consists of a cartouche bearing the payment text in blackletter script, the date, validity inscription, and two manuscript signatures with their respective titles beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on orange paper, the reverse bears a woodcut-style vignette of a large classical civic building occupying the central field, rendered in bold black lines against the orange ground. The denomination '75' appears in large decorative numerals at the upper left and right corners, flanked by wavy ornamental bands above and below the architectural vignette. The city name 'GÜSTROW' is lettered in bold Gothic type beneath the building, with the printer's imprint 'HOF- UND RATSBUCHDRUCKEREI' in small type along the lower margin. |
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Güstrow's municipal savings bank issued this note as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept German towns in 1921–1922, when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively disappeared from everyday commerce — hoarded, melted, or simply inadequate against accelerating inflation. The Städtische Sparkasse was not a commercial bank but a civic institution, and its authority to issue emergency scrip was locally sanctioned rather than federally mandated.
The Hof- und Ratsbuchdruckerei was Güstrow's own court and council printing house, making this an entirely local production from authorization to physical output — an unusual degree of municipal self-containment even by Notgeld standards.