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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinfeld (Schleswig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | Black and yellow reverse with a bold Fraktur header "Notgeld Schein Steinfeld" on a dark ground, a dotted circular cartouche bearing "75 Pf." at top centre, and a central rectangular colour vignette illustrating a rural scene: two figures sheltering beneath a large red parasol, with tents, a wagon, figures on a riverbank in a boat, and a windmill visible in the background against a pale sky. Below the vignette, a yellow band carries the motto in Gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld Schein 75 Pf. Steinfeld Beschirm uns Gott vor Wohnungsnot! |
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Steinfeld is a small parish in the Schleswig district, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal small-change scrip that flooded northern Germany as coin shortages persisted well beyond the Armistice. Most Gemeinde-level issuers in Schleswig-Holstein produced runs of a few thousand pieces at most, printed locally or by small regional firms — editions too modest to attract the major Leipzig or Berlin printers that handled city-scale issues.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is the least common of the three values typically struck by village communes in this period, as it had little practical utility in everyday transactions.