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75 Pfennig Königs-Wusterhausen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Königs-Wusterhausen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a multicolour letterpress vignette of the historic Tabakshäuschen (tobacco house) from the time of Friedrich Wilhelm I, a timber-framed structure set among tall trees in a wooded landscape rendered in teal, brown, and muted earth tones. The denomination '75 Pf.' appears in red numerals within green corner cartouches at all four corners, with 'Ausgegeben' running vertically along the left border and the issue date 'den 13. Dez. 1921' along the right. Below the vignette, a caption in Gothic script identifies the building, with the printer's imprint 'Selmar Bayer, Berlin' in small type at the very foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 Pf. Ausgegeben den 13. Dez. 1921 Tabakshäuschen z. Zt. Friedr. Wilhelms I. Selmar Bayer, Berlin |
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Königs-Wusterhausen sits southeast of Berlin on the rail line to Cottbus, and by 1921 the town's municipality was among thousands of German local authorities issuing Notgeld to plug a coin shortage made catastrophic by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar economic dislocation. Selmar Bayer was a Berlin commercial printer regularly engaged for small-denomination municipal issues across Brandenburg — competent, prolific, unremarkable.
The 75-Pfennig denomination is the odd value in most Notgeld sets, typically issued to complete a trio alongside 25 and 50, and redeemed in bulk once Reichsbank supply normalized in late 1922 and 1923.