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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kummerfeld, Municipality of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-green underprint with black letterpress printing throughout. The central panel carries a narrative vignette illustrating a scene from Fritz Reuter's Low German poem 'De Wett', showing three figures — two workmen standing and one seated on a stool — gathered before a wall clock in an interior setting, with domino motifs and playing card heart suits printed as decorative underprint elements in the lateral panels. The denomination '75' and the issuing authority inscription are repeated in the flanking columns. A quoted Low German verse caption appears in the lower central panel. |
| Reverse lettering | "De Wett" - Gedicht von Fritz Reuter / Notgeld der Gemeinde Kummerfeld / "Hier geiht 'e hen, dor geiht 'e hen." |
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Kummerfeld is a small village in Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly minor German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed World War One. The Konrad Hanf firm in Hamburg handled both design and printing here — a common arrangement for smaller issuers who lacked the resources or connections to commission separate design work. Hanf produced Notgeld for numerous northern German communities during this period, which means the artistic conventions on this note owe as much to that studio's house style as to any local identity.