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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schwaan (City of Schwaan) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Designer(s) | W. Kaufmann |
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| Obverse lettering | 75 Pfg. Notgeld d. Stadt Schwaan i M. Gültig bis 31. März 1922 Der Rat d. St. Schwaan Der Stadtverordn.-Vorsteher Venymer Harms. Reukmann Pfitz |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a full-height woodcut-style landscape vignette in black, red, and olive tones, showing a wooded path through dark trees with a female allegorical nude figure — representing the Slavic goddess Siva — standing at centre holding a flower. A horizontal ruled band separates the pictorial field from the lower panel, which contains a six-line verse in Low German dialect printed in Gothic blackletter script on a grey ground, enclosed between double black rule borders. |
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Schwaan is a small town in Mecklenburg, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1922 places this squarely in Germany's hyperinflationary spiral rather than the earlier wartime small-change shortage that prompted most municipal issues. By 1922, many towns were producing notgeld as much for collector sale as genuine fiscal need — the hobby trade was already substantial, and attractive regional designs sold well to notgeld enthusiasts across the country.
W. Kaufmann is credited on several Mecklenburg notgeld series from this period, working out of the Oldenburg printing trade. The P# GrM reference indicating variants 1203.1-3/4 suggests at least two distinct printings or color states exist within this denomination.