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20 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Hohenmölsen (City of Hohenmölsen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld note printed in black and blue on white paper. The central vignette shows a line-art view of the Hohenmölsen Rathaus (town hall) with its clock tower, captioned above. Denomination panels flank the left side; the right panel carries the validity notice and a manuscript signature of the Magistrat. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in black and pale blue, with denomination numerals in corner cartouches. The central vignette presents a silhouette tableau of two storks and two cats exchanging dishes and a jug beneath a stylised tree — the traditional Wahrzeichen (emblem) of Hohenmölsen. Decorative scroll borders frame the composition on all sides. |
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Hohenmölsen sits in the heart of the Geiseltal lignite-mining district of Saxony-Anhalt, and like dozens of similar industrial municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldscheine to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that plagued Germany during the postwar economic dislocation. Graphische Kunstanstalt Gerth & Oppenrieder in Gera was a regional commercial printer that handled a substantial volume of such municipal emergency issues across Thuringia and Saxony — workmanlike production, not prestige engraving.
The signature of Rose Muschberg is unusual; female signatories on German Notgeld are uncommon enough to warrant attention, likely indicating a senior municipal treasury clerk or Stadtkämmerei official.