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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse des Ostseebades Brunshaupten |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left panel of this Notgeld note is printed in blue and black on a light ground, with the issuer's name 'Brunshaupten' set in large bold letterpress type at centre, flanked above by the text identifying the Sparkasse des Ostseebades. Below, a promise-to-pay legend in German is followed by the denomination expressed in words as 'Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig', with the numeral '75' superimposed in white over a bold black diamond cartouche bearing the word 'PFENNIG' in gold. The right panel carries a letterpress vignette of a milkmaid in traditional dress crouching beside a tethered cow on a grassy shoreline, with three beehives visible in the background against a coastal seascape. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ostseebad Brunshaupten Blick auf die Badeanstalten 75 Pf D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Brunshaupten was a small Baltic Sea resort on the Mecklenburg coast — the kind of seaside town whose local savings bank had no business issuing emergency currency except that, like hundreds of German municipalities between 1914 and 1923, it had no choice. This 75 Pfennig denomination is Notgeld, issued to cover the chronic shortage of small change that plagued the Reich throughout and after the First World War.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau printed vast quantities of municipal Notgeld during this period, servicing issuers across northern Germany. The printer data lists Glogau as Germany — correct for the era, though the city is now Głogów in Poland.