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75 Pfennigs St. Magnus
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Magnus |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a typographic style with geometric interlaced border patterns in olive-green and black running along all four edges, interspersed with diamond-shaped ornamental vignettes. The denomination numeral '75' occupies the central panel in large bold type, flanked above and below by stylized Pfennig currency symbols, with the serial number printed in red at lower right. Below the central panel, three lines of text state the validity period and place of issue, followed by the issuing authority designation and a manuscript signature, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central landscape vignette rendered in fine letterpress line work, showing a rural idyll along the Lesum river with a large tree dominating the foreground, a country lane receding to the right past a figure and a gate, a church spire visible among distant trees, and open meadows stretching to the left. The same geometric interlaced border in olive-green and black frames all four sides. Inscriptions above the vignette identify the scene as the 'Lesum Idyll' of the 'Bremer Schweiz', while the issuer legend is repeated at the foot. |
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St. Magnus is a small community on the northern outskirts of Bremen, and its 1921 notgeld issue was typical of the municipal small-change shortages that plagued German towns in the early Weimar period. Coins had vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never minted in sufficient quantity during and after the war — and Gemeinde St. Magnus turned to Konrad Hanf in Hamburg to fill the gap.
Hanf was a minor regional printer, not one of the major notgeld houses, which likely kept production costs low for a community of this size.