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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hohenmölsen (City of Hohenmölsen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Graph. Kunstanstalt Gerth & Oppenrieder, Gera, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels printed in black and pale blue on white paper stock. The left panel bears the denomination '20 Pfennig' at the top in bold Gothic type above the issuer inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Hohenmölsen' in large Fraktur script, with a five-digit serial number at the base. The central panel presents a detailed letterpress vignette of the Hohenmölsen Rathaus (town hall) with its prominent clock tower, captioned 'Rathaus' above and 'Ausgegeben im Jahre 1921' below. The right panel restates the denomination and carries the validity clause along with the manuscript signature of the Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Hohenmölsen Rathaus. Ausgegeben im Jahre 1921. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung im Wochenblatt Hohenmölsen. Der Magistrat: |
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Hohenmölsen, a small Saxony-Anhalt town sitting atop one of Germany's more productive lignite fields, issued this Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank was unable to keep low-denomination coins in circulation — metal was still being diverted toward industrial recovery — so thousands of German municipalities printed their own small-change notes. Hohenmölsen was one of them.
Gerth & Oppenrieder in Gera handled a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld commissions during this period, and their output is generally competent lithographic work rather than anything artistically ambitious.