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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schönebeck an der Elbe (City of Schönebeck an der Elbe) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green, pink, and blue on cream paper, centered on a bold octagonal cartouche with a heavy black border enclosing the denomination numeral '75' in blue, with 'Pf.' below in Gothic script. A pink arched panel beneath carries the issuer inscription in large blackletter type, flanked on either side by two columns of rhyming verse in Gothic script referencing the local salt industry. The serial number appears in blue at lower left, with the magistrate's facsimile signature and an invalidity clause printed at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on cream paper and carries a detailed vignette of the interior of a traditional saltworks (Saline), with two workers — one hauling a loaded cart and another shoveling salt — depicted amid evaporation pans and the timber-framed structural columns of the boiling house. The scene references Schönebeck's centuries-old salt-production heritage and is executed in a bold woodcut-style graphic. The printer's imprint 'Heinemann, Schönebeck.' appears in small type at the lower margin. |
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Schönebeck an der Elbe was a significant salt-producing center on the Elbe, and its municipal notgeld was printed locally by Heinemann rather than farmed out to the large Leipzig or Berlin printers that handled most German city emergency issues. Local printing at this scale was relatively uncommon — most small municipalities lacked a printer with sufficient capacity — which makes the Heinemann imprint worth noting.
The 75 Pfennig denomination was among the more practical fractional values issued during the 1920–1921 notgeld wave, when coin shortages made small-change substitutes a daily necessity rather than a collector novelty.