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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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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Bockswiese-Hahnenklee Ober-Harz 600m. Höhe Von Tannen umsäumt liegt still verträumt: Hahnenklee, des Harzes Königin. 75 Pfennige Dieser Schein wird bis zum 1. Okt. 1922 von der Gemeindekasse eingelöst Der Gemeinde Ausschuß CURT HAMITZSCH gez. Ausgeführt: KLISCHEE-FABRIK 'HARZER GRAPHIA' |
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| Reverse lettering | Grumbacher Teich 3 wiegt in sei-nem Hauch der Tau sich lieb-lich es im Glanz. Es 75 Pfennige |
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Bockswiese-Hahnenklee was a small mining and spa settlement in the Harz mountains, and its 1922 notgeld issue reflects the acute small-change shortage that forced thousands of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency during the inflation crisis. Klischee-Fabrik Harzer Graphia was a local printing and cliché-manufacturing firm serving the regional market — not a major security printer — which puts the production entirely within the Harz itself.
Curt Hamitzsch was a Leipzig-trained graphic artist who contributed designs to several Harz-region notgeld series during this period. The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual — most municipal series of this type defaulted to 25, 50, and 1 Mark increments, and the odd value suggests a calculated attempt to address a specific gap in local circulation.