75 Pfennigs

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.