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125 Pfennig E. Bornemann
| Issuer | E. Bornemann & Co. G.m.b.H., Bad Rehburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a colour lithograph of a monumental, centuries-old oak tree (captioned AUS D. REHBURG WELT. 1000-JÄHRIGE EICHE) set within a ruled rectangular frame, printed on a pale yellow ground. The denomination 125 Pfg. appears in bold Gothic script in the upper corners within teal-tinted panels, while the issuer name BAD-REHBURG is inscribed in a decorative cartouche at the top centre. Verse text in German script occupies the flanking left and right panels, and the validity date, place, and issuer details are printed in italic script beneath the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette is a colour lithograph of Wilhelmstein island on the Steinhuder Meer, rendered with sailing boats on the water in the foreground and seagulls in flight across a pale yellow sky. The denomination 1.25 appears in large white numerals at lower left and right within dark panels, while a blue panel at the bottom centre carries a verse in German script. A decorative typographic border repeating the text LOCCUMER ABTEI LIKÖR frames the entire note. |
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Bad Rehburg was a small spa town in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities and private businesses in 1921, E. Bornemann & Co. issued its own emergency scrip — Notgeld — to alleviate the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that had plagued Germany since the war. Private commercial issuers of this kind are considerably less documented than their municipal counterparts, and Bornemann's series sits in the murkier end of the Notgeld catalog.
The 125-Pfennig denomination is characteristically awkward, a value that would have made little practical sense under normal monetary conditions.