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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekircherat Süsel (Parish Church Council of Süsel) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress on cream-white paper, with an upper vignette presenting a silhouette panorama of Süsel village with its church steeple amid trees, flanked by silhouette figures of children set within Art Nouveau foliate borders. The lower half displays the denomination numeral '25' in large Gothic script at left and right, enclosing the issuer name 'GEMEINDEKIRCHERAT' above the place name 'SÜSEL' in ornate Gothic lettering, with two manuscript signatures across the centre. A text banner along the upper edge carries the validity clause and the issue date of 4 November 1920. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress on cream-white paper, with elaborate foliate borders incorporating bell-flower motifs framing the left and right edges. A radiant heart motif occupies the upper centre beneath the text panel, while a woodcut-style rural vignette in the lower right renders thatched farmhouses amid trees, signed 'H. Blumk' at lower right; a large ornate Gothic '25' in the lower left balances the composition. The printer's imprint 'H. G. Rahtgens, Lübeck' appears beneath the lower border. |
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Süsel is a small village in Holstein, and the fact that its parish church council — not the municipality, not a savings bank, but the Gemeindekircherat — was issuing emergency small change in 1920 says something direct about how thoroughly the postwar coin shortage had hollowed out everyday commerce. Church bodies were not typical notgeld issuers; most were municipalities, districts, or local chambers of trade.
H. G. Rahtgens of Lübeck produced a large volume of regional notgeld during this period, running off small denominations for dozens of Holstein communities. Designer H. Blumk's credit appearing on a note of this size and origin is mildly unusual — most Rahtgens pieces of this type were anonymous work.