75 Pfennig, Kreis Diepholz, 1921 (Barnstorf)
Gutschein fuer den Kreis Diepholz
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00646
- Serial
- A 16975
- Series year
- 1921
- Actually issued
- 1921
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- XF (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
- Estimated value
- $5.5 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-17.
- Dimensions
- 82.7 × 64.8 mm (±1.6, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldSerienscheinLower SaxonyDistrict issueLow GermanWeimar Republic
The type
- Type
- 75 Pfennig, Kreis Diepholz, 1921 (Barnstorf)
- Printer
- Casten & Suhling, Bremen
- Rarity
- common
Inscriptions
Gutschein fuer den Kreis Diepholz. Einloesung erfolgt durch die unterzeichnete Kasse bis 3 Monate nach erfolgtem Aufrufe in der Diepholzer Kreiszeitung.
Voucher for the district of Diepholz. Redeemable by the undersigned treasury until three months after a call published in the Diepholz district newspaper.
Symbology
- The church at Barnstorf
- One of the parish churches of the district, drawn by C. Joerres for the 1921 series.
- Gallows, wheel and court
- The marginal vignettes recall the old village jurisdiction named in the verse.
What was happening
By 1920 German Notgeld had stopped being a response to a coin shortage and become a collector's product. Towns, districts and firms commissioned decorative Serienscheine - lithographed sets printed far beyond any local need and sold to collectors, illustrated with whatever the place was proud of: a legend, a famous son, a battle, a trade, a joke in dialect. The result is the most inventive body of graphic design in the history of paper money, made in the years when Germany's currency was dying.
In August 1921 the district of Diepholz issued a second, far more lavish series than its plain 1920 notes: full-colour sheets drawn by C. Joerres and printed by Casten & Suhling of Bremen, each one portraying a different place in the Kreis - Barnstorf, Lemfoerde and the rest - with a Low-German verse. The Gutschein fuer den Kreis Diepholz, the serial and the signatures of the Kreissparkasse sit on the obverse, over the district arms.
This note shows Die Kirche zu Barnstorf, the church at Barnstorf, over a Low-German verse and a procession of parishioners, with the old emblems of gallows, wheel and court along the margins. Serial A 16975.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 75 Pfennig, Kreis Diepholz, 1921 (Barnstorf) in the collection.
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