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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Tangstedt bei Pinneberg, Municipality of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a colour lithographic vignette of the Wolfsmühle pavilion and fountain garden (Springbrunnen), with a tall obelisk monument rising above a decorative fence line, flanked by birch trees and a small tiled-roof structure amid lush foliage. A dark cartouche at the lower centre bears the denomination numeral '75' in stylised script. The composition is enclosed within a blue ornamental border with foliate corner devices. |
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| Reverse description | No second image provided; reverse description not available. |
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Tangstedt bei Pinneberg is a small municipality northwest of Hamburg, and like hundreds of German communities in the early 1920s, it resorted to locally printed Notgeld to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued everyday commerce during the inflation period. These hyperlocal issues were produced in enormous variety and often in deliberately limited runs, since collectors had begun hoarding attractive Notgeld almost as fast as it was printed — a dynamic that distorted the entire series away from its original emergency function.
The DeNG reference places this firmly in the standard Kleingeldscheine corpus. Tangstedt's issues are not among the rarer documented municipalities, but small-run parish-level notes from this district see genuine attrition from casual disposal.