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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Tondern |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ground note with an ornate orange and brown scrollwork border framing the entire face. At centre, a large circular vignette with pink vertical-stripe underprint bears the bold red numeral "25" enclosed within a wreath of laurel leaves rendered in ochre tones. Bilingual validity text appears flanking the central medallion — in German (left) and Danish (right) — with the issuing authority "Tondern / 10. Febr. 1920 / Magistrat" at lower left and a manuscript signature at lower right; a red serial number is printed in the upper right field. |
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| Reverse description | Tan and brown note with acanthus-leaf pilaster panels at left and right, each bearing a circular denomination disc with the numeral "25" in dark brown on a gold ground. The central vignette, executed in a polychrome illustrative style, shows a young woman in traditional Schleswig folk costume seated on a meadow, holding a large golden horn (the Gallehus horn); a landscape with water and pastel sky occupies the background. A bold letterpress inscription "PLEBISCIT SLESVIG" runs across the top of the note, with the caption "GULDHORNET, fundet 1639 ved Tønder" printed below the central vignette. |
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Tondern — now Tønder in southern Denmark — issued this notgeld in 1920, the same year the town was ceded to Denmark under the terms of the Versailles Treaty following the Schleswig plebiscite of February that year. The northern zone voted overwhelmingly for Denmark; Tondern itself sat in the second zone, which voted to remain German, yet the border was drawn through it anyway. The Magistrat issued emergency small change scrip during precisely this administrative limbo, when the monetary situation was as unresolved as the political one.
The single signature, Paulsen, almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister or a senior municipal official of the transitional administration.