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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schnelsen (Com. Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey and black tones, its border formed by a chain-link ornamental frame with small floral motifs at the top corners. The denomination '75' appears in bold at each of the four corners. A central landscape vignette presents a view of a traditional North German thatched farmhouse with adjacent outbuildings rendered in fine line work. Below the vignette, a three-line literary quotation in cursive Gothic script is printed, followed by a small printer's imprint in the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 Original, fahr hin in deiner Pracht, Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken, Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht? |
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Schnelsen in 1921 was a small rural commune in the Amtsbezirk Pinneberg, not yet absorbed into Greater Hamburg — that annexation wouldn't come until 1937. Like hundreds of similar municipalities across Weimar Germany, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz during the acute coin shortage that persisted well after the war ended, a shortage driven partly by metal hoarding and partly by the collapse of pre-war minting capacity. The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual; most municipal issues favored round figures, so the choice suggests an attempt to cover a specific transactional gap in local commerce.