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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Ballenstedt (District Committee of Ballenstedt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) (1.00) |
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| Reverse description | Full-colour illustrated reverse by W. Dockhorn, printed in a fairy-tale style across three panel-like vignettes set within a dark border. The scene depicts the Dwarf King Muck dispatching his company of red-capped gnomes through a forest landscape to assist humans; a crowned king figure stands centrally amid the woodland setting with mushrooms, rocks, and trees throughout. A decorative banner at the top carries a verse inscription in Gothic blackletter, and a lower text panel bears a prose caption; the denomination '100 Pfg.' appears in red at lower left and lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Was tuschelt am Romberg im Moos u. Farn und rennet u. winkt sich u. kommt zusam! Der Zwergkönig Muck schickt sein Völkchen aus den Menschen zu helfen in Flur und Haus. 100 Pfg. |
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Ballenstedt is a small town in the Harz foothills, seat of the Anhalt ducal family for centuries — but by 1921 it was a district scrambling for small change like everywhere else in Weimar Germany. The postwar coin shortage drove thousands of municipalities, districts, and private firms to print their own Notgeld, and Kreis Ballenstedt was no exception. Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled a number of these local emergency issues across the surrounding districts.
The DeNG reference suffix "6/6" indicates this is the sixth note in a six-piece series — the complete set being the more collectible unit.