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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Buxtehude (City of Buxtehude) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in black and ochre-gold. The upper portion carries the bold title inscription 'GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BUXTEHUDE' above the large denomination numeral '25' flanked by ornamental foliate underprint panels, with a faint vignette of a bearded figure visible as a central underprint. A framed Low German dialect verse occupies the centre field, and below it runs a horizontal vignette of a running hare flanked by crouching animals in a countryside scene. The validity date 'GÜLTIG BIS 1. OKTOBER 1920' and the redemption notice appear in the lower panel. |
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| Reverse description | Cream-toned reverse with an elaborate ochre-gold baroque foliate scroll underprint filling the entire field. At centre top, a rectangular vignette presents the panoramic skyline of Buxtehude with church steeple, captioned 'BUXTEHUDE' beneath. The denomination '25 PFENNIG' appears in large numerals to either side of a central heraldic shield bearing two crossed keys — the arms of Buxtehude — with two black dog vignettes at lower left and lower right. Columns of legal authorisation text flank the shield, with two facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and Bürgermeister. |
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Buxtehude's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany following the post-WWI coin shortage — by 1920, hundreds of small towns were commissioning local scrip simply to make change. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was a well-established printing house with deep roots in commercial lithography, and their work on small municipal issues like this one was essentially bread-and-butter volume work during the Notgeld boom years.
Buxtehude, a small Hanseatic town west of Hamburg, leaned heavily into its medieval identity in its Notgeld series — a marketing instinct that was, by 1920, already calculated. Collectors were actively pursuing decorative issues, and town councils knew it.