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75 Pfennig I. Iwersen
| Issuer | Firma J. Iwersen, Oldenburg in Holstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey note with a structured layout divided into three horizontal registers, each framed by ruled borders. The upper register carries the central title text on a white ground, flanked left and right by square cartouches bearing the bold numeral '75' over a hatched amber underprint. The central amber-tinted panel contains a four-line verse in Low German dialect, and the lower register presents the redemption notice on a white ground, again flanked by '75' cartouches. The printer's imprint appears at the lower left margin and the designer's name at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notwechselgeld der Firma J. Iwersen Oldenburg i. H. De Bur givt den' Kopmann sin Botter un Eier, Kriegt Koffee un Zucker von'n Tüten dreiher, So helpt de en den'annern ut de Not Un beide staht sick dorbi ganz good. Dieser Schein wird von der Firma J. Iwersen Oldenburg in Holstein bis zum 31. Dezember 1921 eingelöst. Druck: C. Fränckel Nchfg., C. Will, Oldenburg i/Holstein Wilhelm Johannsen |
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Notgeld from the inflation spiral of 1921 came out of hundreds of small German firms and municipalities, but few were printed by their issuing town's own local press. This one was — C. Fränckel Nchfg. C. Will was an Oldenburg in Holstein print shop, not a specialist currency printer, and the design credit to Wilhelm Johannsen suggests a purely local commission rather than a borrowed stock plate.
Firma J. Iwersen was a private commercial enterprise issuing its own emergency fractional currency — a legal if chaotic feature of Weimar-era Germany, where the collapse of coin availability forced individual businesses to fill the gap themselves.