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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Harzburg (City of Bad Harzburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour vignette by F. Jüttner of dancing nude figures on a meadow, with validity text panel above and denomination 20 in each corner. A four-line verse in a lower panel references elves dancing on Donar's meadows. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette by F. Jüttner of leisure figures on the Liegewiese meadow, flanked by side panels inscribed Philosophenweg and Ministerweg, with denomination 20 Pfg. in each corner. Printer's imprint appears below. |
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Bad Harzburg issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany's municipal economies in the early 1920s — a crisis driven by hoarding, rapid inflation eroding coin values, and a central government unable to keep pace with demand for low-denomination currency. Thousands of German towns and cities responded with their own Notgeld, but most contracted printing to Leipzig or Berlin specialists. Rosdorff was a local firm, printing for the town that housed it.
F. Jüttner was a prolific Notgeld designer whose work appears across numerous Harz-region issues of this period.