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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sellin auf Rügen (Municipality of Sellin on Rügen) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light blue Notgeld voucher with a geometric black-and-white lattice border enclosing a cream central field. Two identical vignettes flank a central cartouche: female bathers in black swimsuits and feathered caps, seated on benches and holding red parasols. The denomination '75 Pf. 75' appears in large blue numerals at the top, while the cartouche, printed in green and black, bears the issuing authority's name in Gothic script and states the expiry date of 1 March 1922, with a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand below. |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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Sellin, a small seaside resort on Rügen's eastern shore, issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s — a problem distinct from the hyperinflation that followed, driven instead by hoarding of metal coinage as commodity prices rose. Municipal Notgeld of this kind was as much a practical solution as a local curiosity, and Sellin was one of dozens of resort communities that leaned into decorative series knowing collectors would absorb the surplus.
Stöckel of Hannover printed numerous such municipal issues during this period. The watermarked paper was a modest security gesture for what was, in practice, a locally redeemable scrip with a limited circulation window.