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75 Pfennig Rees
| Issuer | Stadt Rees (City of Rees) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | An oval vignette framed by a decorative pearl border contains a detailed architectural view of the historic Kranpoort (crane gate) of Rees, with the town's shield — a red field bearing a white key — positioned beneath the archway. Stylised foliate scrollwork in ochre and black fills the four corners, with the denomination '75 Pf.' rendered in large Gothic letterforms at top and bottom. Two lines of Low German dialect verse curve along the oval frame, and the designer's credit 'Franz Knippenberg – Rees a.Rh.' is printed in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Kiekt dor de Kranpoort siet, dei Pitteng En Märt met Gewölbs ömboort 75 Pf. FRANZ KNIPPENBERG – REES a.RH. |
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Rees is a small Rhine town in what was then the Prussian Rhine Province, and its 1921 notgeld issue was commissioned during the height of the German small-change crisis, when coin hoarding and metal shortages left municipalities scrambling to fund everyday transactions. Franz Knippenberg designed the series, and Ant. Kämpfe of Jena — a printer with strong notgeld credentials from that period — handled production.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is the least common of the Rees series, suggesting either a shorter print run or heavier actual use in circulation before collectors began pulling examples from exchange.