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75 Pfennig Bevern
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bevern (Amtsbezirk Bevern) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Conrad Hanf, Hamburg |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue, black, and yellow on white paper. A bold header reads 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BEVERN' within a decorative geometric border band. The central vignette, set against a blue nocturnal sky with a crescent moon and stars, depicts a gnome or dwarf figure standing beside a toadstool and small wildflowers. Denomination panels reading '75 PFENNIG' appear in bold black numerals at left and right. The lower portion carries the issuing authority text, the expiration date, and two manuscript signatures with a red handstamped serial number. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BEVERN 75 PFENNIG |
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Bevern is a small municipality in Lower Saxony, and this 75 Pfennig note is one of thousands of Kleingeldersatz issues that flooded Germany during the acute coin shortage of 1921 — a shortage driven less by wartime metal loss than by the accelerating devaluation that made hoarding copper and nickel economically rational. Local authorities, municipal savings banks, and even individual merchants were empowered to fill the gap. Conrad Hanf in Hamburg was a prolific printer of such Notgeld, servicing dozens of small communities across northern Germany with short-run issues like this one.
Redemption periods were typically tight, and many of these 1921 issues were declared void within months.