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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Esingen (Municipality of Esingen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of two trees with intertwined crowns and entangled root systems, rendered in a bold woodcut style. Flanking the vignette are two solid black rectangular panels each bearing the denomination numeral '75' with a Pfennig symbol in white letterpress. A red-stamped serial number appears in a lined rectangular box at upper right, with two manuscript signatures and issuing authority text at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a woman in traditional Frisian folk costume, turned slightly to the right with hands folded before her, rendered in a delicate line-engraving style against a stippled landscape underprint. The composition is framed by a decorative border with chevron-patterned panels at left and right, and denomination tablets bearing '75 PFENNIG' in the lower corners of the inner frame. |
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Esingen is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and its decision to issue notgeld was entirely practical — the postwar coin shortage of 1920–1921 left rural municipalities scrambling to cover small-change transactions that the Reichsbank had no interest in solving at the local level. Konrad Hanf in Hamburg printed notgeld for dozens of such communities across northern Germany during this period, often producing decorative series intended as much for collector sale as actual use.
The six-note series designation (353.1–6) suggests this was a themed collector issue rather than emergency spending money.