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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Garstedt (Municipality of Garstedt in Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a tan ground within a teal-green rectangular border. The issuing authority title NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE GARSTEDT appears in bold black letterpress at the top. The central vignette shows a stylised sailing vessel with a large sail bearing the denomination numeral 75 against a teal-green decorative cloud motif, with a small boat hull rendered below in black. To the lower right a serial number block is overprinted in red. Along the lower margin, a three-line validity clause references the Pinneberger Tageblatt and Lockstedter Anzeiger newspapers, flanked by two manuscript signatures above the text COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG; the printer imprint KONRAD HANF HAMBURG 8. appears below the border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on a tan ground within the same teal-green border as the obverse. NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE GARSTEDT is set in bold letterpress across the top. The central vignette, executed in a woodcut-style letterpress, portrays a woman in traditional North German rural dress and a man in a fisherman's cap conversing in a meadow, accompanied by two dogs, with sailing vessels on a waterway visible in the background amid billowing trees. Denomination panels bearing 75 / Ƨ appear in black on either side of the vignette. At the foot of the note the Low German caption GORCH FOCK / KATT UN HUND is printed in bold black type, referencing the pen name of the North German author Johann Kinau. |
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Garstedt was a small rural commune in Holstein — the kind of issuer that proliferated during Germany's early 1920s Kleingeldersatz crisis, when a combination of postwar coin shortages and rampant hoarding left municipal authorities scrambling to print their own fractional substitutes. Hundreds of German villages and towns issued Notgeld at this level, and Konrad Hanf in Hamburg was among the regional printers who serviced that demand efficiently and cheaply.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly uncommon within small-commune series, which more typically centered on 25 and 50 Pfennig values.