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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Bockswiese-Hahnenklee (Municipality of Bockswiese-Hahnenklee, Prussian province of Hanover) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a colourful letterpress vignette centred on a rooster standing amid clover, enclosed within an ornate cartouche flanked by stylised fir trees against an orange-tinted sky, all within a decorative border. The place name 'Bockswiese-Hahnenklee' appears in Gothic script at the top, with the regional designations 'Ober-Harz' and '600 m. Höhe' on either side below it. At the foot, a ribbon banner carries the denomination '75 Pfennige' alongside the redemption notice and validity date of 1 October 1922, with the designer's name 'Curt Hanitzsch' and the printer's imprint 'Klischee-Fabrik Harzer Graphia' printed in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bockswiese-Hahnenklee Ober-Harz 600 m. Höhe Von Tannen umsäumt Liegt still verträumt Hahnenklee, des Harzes Königin. Dieser Schein wird bis zum 1. Okt. 1922 von der Gemeindekasse eingelöst Der Gemeinde Ausschuß 75 Pfennige CURT HANITZSCH gez. KLISCHEE-FABRIK "HARZER GRAPHIA" |
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Bockswiese-Hahnenklee is a pair of small mining and spa settlements in the Upper Harz, and the 1922 notgeld from their combined municipal treasury reflects exactly that dual identity. Curt Hanitzsch was a Leipzig-based graphic artist who contributed designs to numerous Harz-region notgeld issues during this period — his work for Klischee-Fabrik Harzer Graphia kept production local, which was itself a point of regional pride among the more elaborately conceived collector-oriented notgeld of the inflation years.
By 1922, most 75-Pfennig denominations were already economically marginal given the pace of inflation. This note was almost certainly issued as much for the collector market as for genuine small-change circulation.