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75 Pfennig Königs-Wusterhausen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Königs-Wusterhausen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Selmar Bayer, Berlin, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width colour vignette of the Schloss zu Zeiten Friedrich Wilhelms I., a three-storey Baroque manor house with a distinctive onion-domed central tower, set amid trees and a gravel forecourt rendered in a detailed illustrative style. The denomination '75' appears in pink on teal panels at the upper left and upper right corners, with 'Pf.' repeated in matching panels at the lower corners. Vertical inscriptions 'Ausgegeben' on the left and 'den 13. Dez. 1921' on the right border the central vignette, and a caption below reads 'Das Schloß z. Zt. Friedr. Wilhelms I.', with the printer's imprint 'Selmar Bayer, Berlin' at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 Pf. Ausgegeben den 13. Dez. 1921 Das Schloß z. Zt. Friedr. Wilhelms I. Selmar Bayer, Berlin |
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Königs-Wusterhausen was a small Brandenburg town best known in the early 1920s for its powerful long-wave radio transmitter, the first in Germany to broadcast regular voice programming. This 75 Pfennig Notgeld was issued by the local municipal authority during the height of Germany's small-change crisis, when coin metal had effectively vanished from everyday commerce and thousands of towns printed their own emergency scrip to keep local trade moving.
Selmar Bayer was a Berlin commercial printer responsible for a large volume of municipal Notgeld across the Brandenburg region — competent work, nothing bespoke.