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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Seeth (Municipality of Seeth, Nordfriesland) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Ingwer Paulsen and Hans Philipp |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned notgeld printed in dark red and red, with the municipal name 'GEMEINDE SEETH' arched across a decorative banner at the top centre. A central heraldic shield vignette bearing a leg device is flanked on each side by large red numeral '75' denomination figures. Frisian-dialect text panels appear to the lower left and right, with validity and redemption conditions inscribed, and the issuing authority line 'DE GEMEENDEVORST.' runs along the bottom alongside a facsimile signature; the printer's imprint 'GEBH. & KUNZE FLENSBURG' appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Polychrome vignette in a letterpress style illustrating two figures in traditional 17th-century North Frisian (Stapelholm) regional dress standing before a thatched farmhouse, referencing the Latin caption above; the woman at left proffers a cup to the man at right who leans on a long implement. The Latin inscription 'STAPELHOLMIAE gentis vestitus ANNO DOMINI MDXCVII' is set across the upper portion of the design. Red numeral '75' appears at lower left with 'PENN' at lower right, all within a fine ruled border. |
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Seeth is a village in Nordfriesland that in 1921 had a population of a few hundred people — the kind of municipality that issued Notgeld not out of any banking ambition but simply because the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination exchange impossible. Gebr. & Kunze in Flensburg handled the printing, a regional firm that produced Notgeld for a number of Schleswig communities during this period.
Ingwer Paulsen was a Schleswig-Holstein artist with genuine regional roots, which likely explains his involvement with such a small issuer. The collaboration with Hans Philipp is less documented.