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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Appen (Municipality of Appen, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 85.0 × 58.8 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red, black, and blue, with the full issuer title 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen' in Gothic blackletter across the top red panel, flanked by the denomination '75 Pfg.' in black cartouches on each side. The central red field carries six lines of patriotic verse in Gothic script. The lower register presents a landscape vignette in blue and black showing the base of a large oak tree with agricultural fields stretching toward the horizon, rendered in a woodcut-style artistic technique. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen 75 Pfg. 75 Pfg. doch-wenn harte Stürme wüten drohend sich der Nord erhebt schützge halt die holden Blüten die ein mild'rer Süd belebt. Schleswig-Holstein-stammverwandt Stehe fest-mein Vaterland! |
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Appen is a small village west of Hamburg, and like thousands of German municipalities it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the early 1920s when coin shortages and runaway inflation made official small denominations functionally useless. The 75 Pfennig denomination is characteristic of this period: an odd value with no peacetime precedent, created purely to plug gaps in everyday commerce.
Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer, not a security press, which was entirely typical for local Notgeld commissions. Quality control varied accordingly.