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75 Pfennig Kleinsiedlung Nordmark
| Issuer | Kleinsiedlung Nordmark, Husum |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned note with a stylized foliate underprint in muted brown across both lateral fields. At centre, a circular vignette encloses a pen-and-ink view of a traditional Husum townhouse amid trees, surrounded by a Low German verse inscription. The denomination '75' appears in bold blackletter at upper left and upper right flanking the town name 'HUSUM', with the issuing authority and signatories of the Kleinsiedlung Nordmark board — Bürgermeister and Architekt — printed in a ruled panel at the base, together with the issue date and serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in warm brown tones on a buff ground, the reverse carries a finely executed landscape vignette of a church tower seen through an avenue of mature trees, with a picket fence in the foreground rendered in detailed letterpress line work. The denomination '75 PF.' appears in shield cartouches at lower left and lower right, with the town name '· HUSUM ·' centred at the base. Heraldic shields occupy the upper corners, and a Low German verse runs along the upper and lateral margins; the designer's name 'Max Böttcher' is inscribed in small lettering below the central vignette. |
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Kleinsiedlung Nordmark was a housing cooperative established in Husum in the early 1920s, and this 75 Pfennig note belongs to the wave of Notgeld issued by German municipalities, cooperatives, and private entities during the hyperinflationary period when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Cooperative and settlement organizations issuing their own scrip was not unusual by 1921, but it does narrow the likely circulation to residents and affiliated members rather than the general public.
Max Böttcher's involvement places this among the more deliberately designed local issues — Husum's Notgeld series attracted some artistic attention, partly through regional cultural pride.