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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kummerfeld (Municipality of Kummerfeld) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre underprint on pale paper with a bold black ruled border dividing the face into distinct panels. A central vignette carries a line-engraved portrait of a bearded, bespectacled gentleman in three-quarter view against a cross-hatched background, flanked on each side by small eagle-vignette ornaments. The denomination numeral '25' appears in the four corner panels, a serial number is printed at lower right, and a three-line validity clause occupies the lower centre panel; the printer's imprint 'KONRAD HANF · HAMBURG 8 ·' is typeset below the outer frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | "de Wett" - Gedicht von Fritz Reuter Notgeld der Gemeinde Kummerfeld "Hier geiht'e hen, dor geiht'e hen." |
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Kummerfeld is a small village in Holstein, north of Hamburg, and its decision to issue notgeld was purely practical — the wartime and immediate postwar coinage shortage left even tiny municipalities scrambling for small change. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg-based commercial printer who handled notgeld contracts for numerous Schleswig-Holstein communities during this period, producing functional rather than decorative work.
Kummerfeld's issue is among the more obscure of the regional pieces. No fancy series, no collector-targeted reissue.