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75 Pfennig Ellerhoop
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ellerhoop, Amtsbezirk Bevern |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue and green on cream paper, with a plain rectangular border frame. Two green star-burst shield vignettes anchor the upper corners, flanking the bold letterpress inscription NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ELLERHOOP at the top. The denomination 75 PF appears in large numerals at the lower left and right, with a green letterpress overprint reading AMTSBEZIRK BEVERN at centre, a red serial number stamp below it, and a validity notice in German script reading DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 31. DEZEMBER 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT followed by two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ELLERHOOP AMTSBEZIRK BEVERN 75 PF DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 31. DEZEMBER 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT Der Amtsausschufs Der Amtsvorsteher J.a. |
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Ellerhoop is a small village in Holstein, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is precisely the kind of hyper-local emergency scrip that proliferated across Germany during the postwar coin shortage — municipalities with fewer residents than a city block printing their own fractional currency because Reichsbank coinage had entirely vanished from daily trade. The Amtsbezirk Bevern administrative designation places this firmly in rural Schleswig-Holstein, far from any significant commercial center.
Collector demand for small-commune Notgeld drove many such issues beyond genuine necessity by 1921, and Ellerhoop's series almost certainly falls into that grey zone where civic pride and philatelic speculation blur.