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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gangelt (Municipality of Gangelt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Left panel carries the municipal coat of arms of Gangelt — a black lion rampant on yellow — above a foliate underprint with the numeral 75 in white. Right panel bears the issuer name GANGELT in Gothic script on a blue ground above the denomination Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig in large blackletter; below, a three-line redemption text, date 21. August 1921, and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | Franzosen besetzen Gangelt 1765. |
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Gangelt is a small municipality in the Selfkant district of North Rhine-Westphalia, and like hundreds of German and Austrian towns in 1921, it issued its own emergency fractional currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic shortage of small coins that persisted well after the First World War ended. The 75 Pfennig denomination was common across Westphalian municipal issues of this period, typically printed in short runs by local or regional printers with no involvement from the Reichsbank.
The DeNG 1#406.1 reference places this squarely in the first documented Gangelt series. Whether multiple printings exist under this number is not well established in the standard literature.