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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Holzminden (City of Holzminden) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld d. Stadt Holzminden 75 Pfennig Dieser Schein wird von der Stadtkasse in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit a. 1 Mai 1922 Der Rat d. Stadt: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green on cream paper with a horizontal ruled underprint throughout. A central rectangular vignette presents a townscape view of Holzminden, with a tall church steeple rising above rooftops, trees, and a market square fountain with figures, all rendered in a linear illustrative style. Flanking the central vignette on each side are symmetrical vertical cartouches with scrollwork arabesques, each surmounted by a boxed green numeral '75'. |
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Holzminden's 1922 Notgeld series was among hundreds of municipal emergency issues printed as Germany's postwar inflation stripped small-denomination coinage from circulation entirely. Gebrüder Jänecke was a well-established Hannover printing house with deep roots in commercial and security printing, and their work on Notgeld contracts during this period was extensive — quality varied by contract, and the Holzminden pieces sit in the competent middle range.
The DeNG reference suffix ".1-3" indicates three distinct varieties within this single denomination, likely differentiated by serial number range or minor typographic variation rather than design change.