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75 Pfennig Volksbibliothek und Lesestuben
| Issuer | Stadt Braunschweig (City of Brunswick) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an open book bearing the Saxon Steed sigil, enclosing the large denomination numeral and multiline period-style text in archaic German script. A black mouse vignette appears at upper left, with the Brunswick civic coat of arms at upper right. The overall design employs a deliberately archaised letterpress layout to evoke a medieval script tradition, with the text block occupying the full face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the full denomination text in a regular roman typeface rather than the archaic script of the obverse, presenting the same inscription in a more legible, standardised typographic layout without pictorial vignettes. |
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Braunschweig issued an extensive Notgeld series in 1921, and several denominations were tied to specific municipal institutions rather than generic civic imagery. This 75 Pfennig piece was issued in direct support of the city's public library and reading rooms — the Volksbibliothek und Lesestuben — a funding mechanism that was genuinely unusual even within the already eccentric world of German municipal emergency currency.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented set of four types at this denomination, suggesting the series was substantial enough to require careful sub-cataloguing.