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75 Pfennig Winzeldorf

Issuer Gemeinde Winzeldorf
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Value 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75)
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Obverse lettering Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit zwei Wochen nach Aufruf im Pinneberg Tageblatt und Lockstedter Anzeiger. NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE WINZELDORF 75 Pf Der Finanzausschuss. Der Com.Amtsvorst.
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Reverse lettering Wi bliervt holsteener Burn, züm Hamborger kunnt tang opp unsturn
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Winzeldorf is a small locality in Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly minor German municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward. The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual for municipal Notgeld, which more commonly ran to round figures; it suggests the issuer was trying to cover a specific transactional gap rather than simply flooding local circulation with generic small change.

Konrad Hanf of Hamburg was a commercial printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous north German municipalities during this period, producing functional rather than collectible pieces.

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