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75 Pfennig E. Bornemann
| Issuer | E. Bornemann & Co. G.m.b.H., Bad Rehburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Heinberg, Ilsede |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a bold expressionist style with a blue and yellow border enclosing four denomination numerals '75' in the corners. The central black vignette portrays a dramatic allegorical figure — a dark, hunched creature clutching a globe and rearing up against radiating white beams of light, with a cartouche inscribed 'Sanct Urbaner' at its chest. Text panels to the left and right carry the issuer details, validity date (1.6.1922), place and date of issue (Bad Rehburg, 1.12.1921), and a patriotic verse, framed beneath a pink banner reading 'FÜRWAHR – ER · IST'S!' at the top and 'DER · LANGGESUCHTE!' at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜRWAHR – ER · IST'S! DER · LANGGESUCHTE! Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. 6. 1922. Bad Rehburg, den 1. 12. 1921. E. Bornemann & Co. G. m. b. H. Deutschlands Kraft aus alter Zeit, Glaube, Treu und Einigkeit; Sind der Felsen, an dem zerschellt Der Vernichtungswille der Welt. Sanct Urbaner 75 |
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Bad Rehburg was a small spa town in Lower Saxony, and the note was issued during the acute Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage — that plagued Germany in the early 1920s as inflation eroded the purchasing power of metal coins faster than the mint could replace them. Private firms, municipalities, and civic associations were effectively permitted to fill the gap with their own Notgeld, and E. Bornemann & Co. did exactly that.
The designer credit to Heinberg of Ilsede is an unusual trace — Ilsede was an industrial iron-works town nearby, and such cross-locality commissions were common in regional Notgeld production when local printers lacked in-house artists.