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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kellenhusen (Municipality of Kellenhusen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) (1.00) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a red wave-pattern border. At centre top, the large red numeral '100' is flanked by two reclining mermaid vignettes in an Art Nouveau style, with the denomination 'Pfennig' inscribed below. A central text panel reads the redemption clause of the Notgeld issue for Ostseebad Kellenhusen (Lübecker Bucht), signed by the Gemeindevorstand. At the lower centre, a red trident symbol is set within a decorative cartouche. The designer's name 'Walter Siegmann, Oldenburg i.H.' and the printer's imprint appear in small type at the lower left and right margins respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a red foliate scroll border enclosing a central rectangular vignette rendered in fine line engraving, showing the beach resort pavilion of Kellenhusen with hooded wicker beach chairs and bathers in the foreground and flagpoles surrounding the thatched building. A Low German humorous verse runs along the top and side margins. Below the central vignette, the issuer's name is inscribed in bold type. |
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Kellenhusen is a small Baltic Sea resort village in Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency money — Notgeld — to address the severe coin shortage that persisted well after the First World War. These municipal series were often designed with a tourist audience in mind, produced as collectibles as much as currency, and local printers like C. Fränckel Nchfg. C. Will in Oldenburg in Holstein were kept busy filling that demand.
The DeNG reference 13#687.1-4/4 indicates this is the fourth note in a set of four designs, all sharing the same denomination. Siegmann's involvement as a local designer rather than a commercial art house is worth noting — small-town commissions of this kind are often the harder pieces to attribute.