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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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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and brown Notgeld note printed in letterpress, with the municipality name 'Appen' in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper field. The central vignette shows the quartered coat of arms of the Amtsbezirk Pinneberg encircled by its legend. Denomination numerals '75' appear in brown at left and right flanking the arms, with two manuscript facsimile signatures below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen 75 Pfg. 75 Pfg. Und wo an des Landes Marken Sinnend blinkt die Königsau' – Und wo rauschend stolze Barken Elbwärts ziehn zum Holstengau– Schleswig-Holstein stammverwandt Bleibe treu mein Vaterland! |
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Appen is a small village west of Hamburg, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German emergency money — the so-called "collector's notgeld" period, when municipalities discovered that philatelically minded buyers would purchase and hoard attractive small notes rather than spend them, effectively generating pure profit for the issuing authority. Whether Appen's 75-Pfennig denomination was cynically calculated for this market or genuinely needed for local change is an open question, but the 75-Pfennig value is characteristic of sets designed for completeness rather than utility.
Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular numismatic prestige — workmanlike output, regional clientele.