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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis des Eisenbergs (Waldeck-Pyrmont), District of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 85 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note printed in black and red, with the denomination numeral '20' in bold red script at each corner and 'Pf.' abbreviations flanking the central vignette. The centre carries a stylised woodcut-style tower or castle gatehouse above the circular inscription 'KREIS DES EISENBERGS' and the town name 'CORBACH', with radiating lines evoking a sun burst behind the tower. Issue date 'DEN 15. MAI 1921' and the authority line 'Der Kreisvorstand' appear below the vignette, accompanied by printed facsimile signatures of board members. Redemption and validity notices are printed vertically in black along both lateral margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Pf. KREIS DES EISENBERGS CORBACH DEN 15. MAI 1921 Der Kreisvorstand DIE EINLÖSUNG DIESES GUTSCHEINES ERFOLGT NACH BEKANNTMACHUNG DES ABLAUFS DER GÜLTIGKEIT BEI DER KREISSPAR KASSE – IN – CORBACH |
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Waldeck-Pyrmont was already a spent political force by the time this note was printed. The Free State of Waldeck had voted for annexation into Prussia in 1921 — the referendum passed in May of that year — making this Kreis des Eisenberg issue one of the very last pieces of local emergency currency produced under a jurisdiction that was in the process of ceasing to exist. The timing is genuinely peculiar.
Eisenberg itself was a small administrative district within a principality that had never been economically self-sufficient, and the Notgeld wave of 1921 hit it like everywhere else in provincial Germany: coins had vanished from circulation and municipalities issued what they could. The annexation was formalized on October 1, 1922.