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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Norden |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 68 × 46 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and green on white paper, centered on a vignette of the Norden town hall (Rathaus), a multi-gabled brick building rendered in a graphic woodcut-like style with green roof accents and small figures at the entrance. To the left, the municipal coat of arms of Norden — a shield bearing snowflake or star motifs — is enclosed in a decorative panel above the denomination numeral "25"; an identical denomination panel appears at right with the text "Der Stadt Norden über 25". At top, the voucher title "Gutschein Nr." is set in bold Gothic lettering alongside a printed serial number, while the denomination in full, "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig", runs along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffent- licher Aufforderung des Ma- gistrats bei der Stadtkämmerei zu Norden eingelöst wird. Norden, den 7. April 1919 Der Magistrat Dr. Walther |
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Norden is a small coastal town in East Frisia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1919, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to compensate for a severe shortage of official small-denomination coinage. The Reichsbank had effectively lost control of low-value currency supply in the chaotic months following the November 1918 armistice, forcing local administrations to fill the gap themselves.
The single signature, Dr. Walther, almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister or a senior municipal finance officer, though the name appears across several East Frisian Notgeld issues of this period without further documentation pinning down the individual.