Catalog
1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf, Municipality of |
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| Size | 50 × 42 mm |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink note with a dark navy blue letterpress vignette centrally placed, showing a toad in profile with detailed stippled texture. The vignette is enclosed within a decorative rectangular border composed of repeating foliate and heart-shaped ornamental motifs. The legend POGGENDORP appears beneath the toad in bold block capitals, referencing the local nickname for the municipality. |
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| Obverse lettering | POGGENDORP |
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Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf was a small industrial municipality on the western outskirts of Kiel, later absorbed into the city proper in 1924. Like hundreds of German communes during the acute small-change shortage of 1917–1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — emergency fractional currency — because Reichsbank coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted down. A one-pfennig denomination is among the lowest values produced in the entire Notgeld period, reflecting just how completely the small-coin supply had collapsed.