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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Steinfeld in Schleswig |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STEINFELD Wir wollen keine Dänen sein Wir wollen Deutsche bleiben 75 PFENNIG GÜLTIG BIS 30. NOVEMBER 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND: (Translation: We don't want to be Danes, we want to remain German / Valid until 30 November 1921 / The Municipal Board) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a rural harvest scene rendered in a coloured lithographic style: a horse-drawn cart laden with a large hay bale occupies the foreground, with a male figure atop and a woman carrying a rake standing to the left amid a flowering field, while a traditional windmill rises in the middle distance against a clouded sky. To the right, a decorative cartouche on a yellow ground carries the motto, below which a six-quartered heraldic shield displaying the arms of Schleswig-Holstein and associated symbols — including a heart, a lion, a crescent, a tree, a fish, and other charges — is surmounted by a crowned shield bearing the letter 'T'. The lower border panel reads 'NOTGELDSCHEIN STEINFELD' in bold white capitals on a blue ground. |
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Steinfeld is a small parish in the Schleswig district, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the dense wave of municipal emergency money that flooded northern Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. Most of these rural Schleswig issues were printed in limited runs by local or regional printers with no particular distinction, and many were redeemed within months once central coinage supplies normalized briefly in late 1921 and 1922.
Short-lived issues from minor Schleswig municipalities tend to have survived in collector sets rather than through genuine circulation, which is the honest explanation for why so many turn up in uncirculated condition.