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75 Pfennig Hotel Deutscher Kaiser Travemünde
| Issuer | Hotel Deutscher Kaiser, Travemünde |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is typographically composed in an Art Nouveau-influenced letterpress style, with a scrolled arched banner at the top bearing the title 'WECHSELSCHEIN' flanked by stylised foliate column ornaments. The denomination '75 PFENNIG' is set in bold letterpress within a black rectangular panel at centre, with 'TRAVEMÜNDE' in large block capitals above 'HOTEL DEUTSCHER KAISER'. A light blue guilloche underprint fills the background panels, and the validity clause 'GÜLTIG BIS 30. SEPTEMBER 1922' appears at the foot above the printer's imprint of Gebrüder Borchers G.m.b.H., Lübeck. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and steel blue, with a central vignette of a coastal harbour scene showing fishing boats, sailboats, and industrial structures reflected in calm water beneath a clouded sky. Decorative borders at top and bottom incorporate a herring motif with repeating wave-curl ornaments at the corners, and the denomination '75 PFG' appears in large numerals in the left and right margins. Four text panels in Low German dialect verse surround the central vignette. |
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German hotel notgeld occupies its own strange corner of emergency currency history — issued during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, these private scrip notes were technically illegal tender outside their immediate issuing environment. The Hotel Deutscher Kaiser in Travemünde, the historic Baltic seaside resort district of Lübeck, would have used notes like this to make change for guests when the Reichsbank simply couldn't supply enough coin to keep a hotel running.
Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck printed extensively for local notgeld issuers during this period. Being a short run for a single commercial establishment, survival rates depend almost entirely on whether guests kept them as souvenirs rather than redeeming them.