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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Putbus (Municipality of Putbus) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and green on cream paper, with a bold outer border of zigzag guilloche and flanking pilasters rendered as classical fluted columns at left and right. The central field is enclosed by an ornate acanthus-leaf cartouche in green, within which the issuer legend is set in large Gothic (Fraktur) letterpress type across three lines. Below the cartouche, a lower panel carries the validity clause in Fraktur script over a large green underprint numeral '75', with the denomination '75' repeated in green at the lower-left and lower-right corners, and a manuscript signature of the Amts- und Gemeindevorsteher at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Denn wohr di Jorch un du Briang, Ji hadden kein Erbarm, Spijökten noch in unser Not, Doch blewen uns twei Arm. 75 |
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Putbus is a small planned town on the island of Rügen, founded in the early nineteenth century by Prince Wilhelm Malte I zu Putbus as a Residenzstadt — a miniature aristocratic capital with a circus, theatre, and formal park laid out in conscious imitation of Weimar. By 1922, the Weimar Republic's hyperinflationary spiral had so thoroughly disrupted small-denomination coinage that municipalities across Germany were printing their own emergency money, Notgeld, simply to make daily transactions possible.
This 75 Pfennig note belongs to the decorative "Serienscheine" wave — collector-targeted issues that many small German municipalities printed knowing full well philatelists would absorb most of the print run, effectively subsidizing local budgets. Putbus was well-positioned to profit from that trade, given its status as a tourist destination.