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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 lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ST. MAGNUS DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIG- KEIT AM 31. JANUAR 1922 ST. MAGNUS, DEN 9. NOVEMBER 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTEHER KONRAD HANF, HAMBURG 8 |
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| Reverse lettering | AN DER LESUM BREMER SCHWEIZ NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ST. MAGNUS |
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St. Magnus is a small district on the northern edge of Bremen, and this 75 Pfennig note belongs to the dense wave of German municipal emergency money — Notgeld — issued between 1920 and 1922 when chronic small-coin shortages forced even minor communes to print their own fractional currency. The Gemeinde (municipality) contracted Konrad Hanf in Hamburg, a regional commercial printer responsible for a number of north German Notgeld issues during this period.
The 2#1166.2a reference places this within a numbered series, with the "6/6" suffix indicating the sixth note of a six-piece set — these complete series were frequently sold to collectors rather than spent, which is precisely why so many survive in unused condition.