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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tonndorf-Lohe |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Central text panel set within an orange-tinted cartouche, framed by a decorative border, bearing a four-line Low German verse. Flanking vertical panels carry vignettes of bound wheat sheaves, toothed cogwheels, and a sickle, rendered in a dark brown woodcut-style print. The issuer's name, validity clause, date, and the Gemeindevorsteher's manuscript signature appear below the central cartouche. |
| Reverse lettering | Twintig Penn De Tieden sünd swoar, De Tieden sünd slecht, Leggt all mit Hand an Denn ward wedder recht. Gutschein der Gemeinde Tonndorf-Lohe Gültig bis einen Monat nach öffentl. Aufruf! Tonndorf-Lohe, den 30. März 1921. Der Gemeindevorsteher: |
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Tonndorf-Lohe was a small suburban community east of Hamburg that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coins that had been melting away from circulation since the war years. The town was later incorporated into Hamburg in 1939, which makes its municipal identity as an issuing authority a matter of historical record only.
J. Nägele was a Stuttgart-based commercial artist responsible for a considerable volume of Notgeld artwork during this period, often working across multiple municipalities simultaneously. The DeNG reference suffix "1/5" indicates this is one of five notes in the series.