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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nienburg an der Weser (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Edler & Krische, Hanover, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. Gutschein über 25 Pfennig Stadt Nienburg a/W. EDLER & KRISCHE, HANNOVER |
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| Reverse lettering | Gegen Ablieferung dieses Gutscheins zahlt die Kämmereikasse der Stadt Nienburg den Betrag von 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 3 Monaten nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung eingelöst wird. Der Magistrat |
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Nienburg an der Weser was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the postwar Notgeld wave of 1919, when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply exhausted by wartime demand. The Magistrat's decision to commission Edler & Krische in Hanover rather than use a local printer was typical of the region; the Hanover firm handled a substantial volume of Lower Saxon municipal issues that year.
Edler & Krische notes from this period show consistent typographic quality but are rarely distinguished by elaborate artwork — this was functional emergency printing, not the decorative collector-oriented Notgeld that flooded the market by 1921.