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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Heide (City of Heide) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein SIEGEL DER STADT HEIDE zwanzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb dreier Monate nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung im Heider Anzeiger bei der Stadtkasse Heide eingelöst wird Der Magistrat Bürgermeister |
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| Reverse lettering | Uns Ehrenbörger Klaus Groth 20 20 Help uns ut unsere Not |
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Heide is the administrative seat of the Kreis Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, and this 20 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of chronic small-coin shortages following the First World War. The Reichsbank could not keep fractional coinage in circulation; hoarding and metal shortages stripped it out almost immediately. Cities, towns, and even individual businesses stepped in to fill the gap with paper fractions.
The DeNG 1/2 reference places this within the standard Grabowski/Mehl catalog framework for German municipal emergency money. Heide issued relatively few types compared to larger cities, which keeps the series tidy but unremarkable in terms of variety.