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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Itzehoe (City of Itzehoe), Germany |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | W. Gente, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large engraved vignette in a brown-toned palette illustrating a lively military camp market scene in the style of Schiller's 'Wallenstein's Lager', with soldiers, a sutler woman, musicians, and camp followers gathered around barrels and equipment beneath a tree. A Low German title inscription in decorative script runs across the top of the vignette, and the denomination '25 Penn' appears in a ruled box at upper right alongside the red town arms of Itzehoe. Border bands in Low German verse frame all four sides, and a quoted passage from 'Wallensteins Lager, 5. Auftritt' is set in a text panel to the right of the scene. |
| Reverse lettering | DE HOLSTENLUD START TRU UN FAST, UP DE Twintig Penn un Fief darto, De lüttste Schien von Itzehoe. 25 Penn 1. Jäger: Was? der Blitz! Das il ja die Guster von Blasewitz. Marketenderin: A freilich! Und Er ist wohl gar? Musste Der lange Peter von Atzehs? Der seines Vaters goldene Füchse mit unserm Regiment hat durchgebracht, Zu Glückstadt, in einer lustigen Nacht. Wallensteins Lager v. Schiller 5. Auftritt. BET TON LETZTER ATER RAHRST DI VERLATEN SE GLUIERT DER TAGEN FERERRKRAST, STUR Jul. Nielsen Itzehoe. |
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Itzehoe's 25 Pfennig Notgeld from 1920 is one of thousands of municipal emergency issues that flooded Germany during the coin shortages following the First World War. Local authorities, utilities, and even private businesses were permitted — largely by default, since the Reichsbank couldn't keep pace with demand for small change — to produce their own fractional notes. W. Gente in Hamburg was a workhorse printer for northern German Notgeld, handling a high volume of such commissions from Schleswig-Holstein municipalities in this period.
Collector-targeted "series" Notgeld had not yet fully taken over by 1920; this issue is functional rather than decorative, produced to actually circulate.