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75 Pfennig Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte
| Issuer | Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte e.V., Leer |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Goutschien Gelt för de Tiet fan de Haimaot spillen in't Ottobermannd 1921 Vosfeeste in Leer um Wedesfrau Trietfeld 1500 Autgeven fan de Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte E.V. Leer Ostfriesland 75 HARTUNG & Co., HAMBURG ARTHUR GÖTTING — PREETZ |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red, black, and green on buff paper with a wide decorative Gothic-script border carrying the Low German proverb 'Well Geld will fermallen, koop Glasen un laat se fallen' and the denomination 'Pf. 75' repeated in each corner. The central vignette renders a colour view of the 'Kaaks-Pütte', a historic farmstead complex in the Leer district, with red-brick buildings, trees, and a green foreground with livestock, captioned at lower left. The designer's monogram 'A. Götting' appears at lower right of the vignette. |
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This is Weimar-era Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip issued by a local cultural and heritage preservation society in Leer, East Frisia, rather than by a municipality or bank. The issuing body, the Verein für Heimatschutz und Heimatgeschichte, was a civic association dedicated to regional identity, which made it an unusual but not unique type of Notgeld issuer during the 1919–1922 period when coin shortages pushed the responsibility for small denomination currency onto almost any organization willing to underwrite it.
Arthur Götting of Preetz supplied the design — a detail worth noting, since Preetz is in Holstein, some distance from Leer, suggesting the commission traveled through Hartung & Co. in Hamburg rather than originating locally.