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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Warin (City of Warin) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Vor Stadt Warin witt ganz verdriht / Amt zu Warin frühere alte Bischofsburg / 75 Pfg / Wenn uns dat Amt noch fläuten geiht! / Notgeld der Stadt Warin i/M / Warin Gültig bis 1 März 1922 / Der Rat / Lumann Klübe Stadtbürgermeister / R. Moser |
| Reverse description | Red and multicolour reverse with a bold decorative border matching the obverse. The central vignette shows the heraldic coat of arms of Warin — a blue shield charged with golden roundels — flanked by a second red shield bearing sunflower-like charges, both rising from a grassy mound with a leafy plant growing between them, all enclosed in ribbon scrollwork. The series letter and number appear in the upper corners, with the denomination '75 Pfg' repeated twice across the top, and the issuer's name on a central ribbon banner. The designer's signature 'Richard Zschöke' is visible in the lower right of the vignette. |
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Warin is a small Mecklenburg town, and this 75 Pfennig Notgeld was issued during the hyperinflationary spiral that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency between 1921 and 1923. The Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was a well-regarded regional printer with court printing credentials, and their work on Mecklenburg Notgeld series is generally cleaner than the output of smaller jobbing presses handling comparable commissions elsewhere.
Richard Zschöke's involvement as designer places this note within a specific strand of artistically considered local Notgeld — pieces issued as much for collector sale as for genuine transactional use. By 1922, the collector market for Notgeld was substantial enough that many municipalities printed deliberately in limited runs to generate revenue from philatelic buyers.