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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bodenwerder (City of Bodenwerder) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on white paper. At the top, the issuer name 'Stadt Bodenwerder a.W.' is rendered in heavy blackletter script within a ruled border. The central panel carries an octagonal guilloche frame enclosing the denomination text 'Gut für Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' in Gothic script. Flanking the central panel on either side are octagonal vignettes, each set against a pink underprint, showing a mounted figure in red with the numeral '25 Pf.' below. The lower margin bears the redemption clause, place, date '1. Roube 1920', serial number, the issuing authority 'Die Stadtsparkasse', a manuscript signature, and the printer's imprint 'Selmar Bayer, Berlin SO.36' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Bodenwerder a.W. Gut für Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig 25 Pf. Dieser Gutschein wird von uns bis 31. Dezbr. 1922 eingelöst Bodenwerder a.W. Die Stadtsparkasse Entwurf: Ing. Bades, Bodenwerder SELMAR BAYER, BERLIN SO.36 |
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Bodenwerder's claim to fame is Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen, born here in 1720 — and this notgeld issue leans into that association with the kind of civic pride typical of German emergency currency from the inflation years. Hundreds of German municipalities issued decorative notgeld in 1920–1921, but Bodenwerder had better material to work with than most. The series was designed locally by an engineer named Bades, then sent to Selmar Bayer in Berlin for production — an unusual split between provincial conception and metropolitan execution.
Selmar Bayer handled a significant volume of notgeld commissions during this period but remains poorly documented compared to the larger Berlin printers.