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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Norden |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a multi-storey Renaissance Revival civic building rendered in brown and blue tones, flanked by street views with a lamp post to the right. Two heraldic shields appear in the upper corners — the left bearing stars on a hatched field, the right bearing the numeral 25 — framed by decorative scrollwork in blue. The denomination "25 Pfennig" appears in a blue band at the base, with "Gutschein" and "der Stadt Norden" inscribed in a lower panel alongside a printed serial number. |
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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 15. Januar 1920 Der Magistrat Dr. Walther |
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Norden is a small coastal town in East Frisia, and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1920 places this note squarely in the second wave of German Notgeld — after the wartime shortages but amid the administrative chaos that preceded hyperinflation proper. Municipal issuers at this level had almost no oversight; the Magistrat simply authorized what it needed, signed by whoever held office. Dr. Walther's single-signature authorization was common for smaller Frisian communes.
East Frisian Notgeld from this period is modestly collected regionally but rarely commands serious attention outside Germany.