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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Elmshorn |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Woodcut-style vignette in black, orange, and yellow showing a heap of banknotes with two large fish intertwined among them, evoking wartime currency inflation. The denomination '75 Pf' appears in orange gothic numerals at upper left and upper right. A Low German dialect verse in four lines runs across the lower portion within a banner. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 Pf De leege Krieg hett bannig uns im Druck, hett Gold und Silver freten– Doch Druck veroorsakt Gegendruck. Een mutt sik so helpen weten, So good as'n kann: – Wi druck't dargegen an! 0.5 |
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Elmshorn's 75 Pfennig Notgeld from 1921 sits in an interesting gap: by that point, the Reichsbank had theoretically stabilized small-denomination coin circulation enough that municipal emergency money was supposed to be winding down. Elmshorn issued anyway, as did hundreds of other German municipalities that year, partly from genuine small-change shortages and partly because the collector market had made Notgeld printing briefly profitable for local governments.
H. W. Köbner & Co. in Altona — close enough to Elmshorn that the logistics were straightforward — handled a significant volume of northern German Notgeld during this period.