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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Karlshafen (City of Karlshafen) |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Gotthelft, Cassel, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue of the City of Karlshafen, with the denomination 75 Pfennig rendered in bold letterpress type against a decorative guilloche underprint. The face carries the municipal identification and authorization text in period German Gothic script, framed by a plain border. The overall design follows the utilitarian Notgeld format typical of German municipal emergency currency of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the issuing authority's declaration of validity and redemption terms in German text, set in Gothic letterpress typography against a plain or lightly printed background consistent with Notgeld production standards. A simple border frames the text block, with the printer's imprint of Gebrüder Gotthelft, Cassel present. |
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Karlshafen — a small Huguenot settlement on the Weser, founded in 1699 by Landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel — issued this Notgeld during Germany's post-WWI small-change crisis, when coin metal shortages forced thousands of municipalities to print their own emergency currency. Gebrüder Gotthelft in Cassel was one of the more prolific regional printers of Hessian Notgeld, handling issues for numerous small towns simultaneously in this period.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is characteristic of the transitional 1921–1922 issues, when inflation had already made the lower 10 and 25 Pfennig notes nearly pointless but hyperinflation had not yet made paper currency worthless by the hour.