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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Otterndorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set on a light guilloche underprint with the heading "Gutschein der Stadt Otterndorf u/e" in bold Gothic lettering across the top. The central vignette presents the coloured municipal coat of arms of Otterndorf — a quartered shield bearing Saxon diagonal stripes and a golden lion rampant on a light ground, surmounted by a crenellated crown — flanked on both sides by the denomination "25 Pfennig" in large Gothic type. Below, a boxed inscription reads "Dieser Gutschein wird von unserer Kämmereikasse eingelöst", with a dateline "Otterndorf, im Mai 1920" and two manuscript signatures above the titles "Der Magistrat:" and "Die Bürgervorsteher:". |
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| Reverse lettering | Rut ut de Schiet, rin in de Boot! hear mit uns Scheep: Seafohrt is not! Otterndorf u/e: Außenhafen Johann Hinrich Meyer, Hamburg 8 |
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Otterndorf is a small town at the mouth of the Elbe in Lower Saxony, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage — that gripped Germany in the years immediately following World War One. Municipal and commercial bodies across the country issued their own Notgeld to fill the gap left by hoarded or scarce official coinage, and the Magistrat der Stadt Otterndorf was one of thousands of local authorities that did so in 1920.
Johann Hinrich Meyer was a well-established Hamburg printing house that handled a substantial volume of regional Notgeld production during this period. The short overland distance from Otterndorf to Hamburg made it a practical choice.