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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hoyer (Municipality of Hoyer) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | L. Thaysen |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is a polychrome lithograph presenting a broad vignette of a multi-arched brick sluice gate or flood barrier rendered in red and black line work against a yellow sky and green foreground marshland. At the base, a central circular medallion contains a profile portrait of a bearded male figure in traditional maritime dress, flanked symmetrically by two flatfish vignettes. Denomination panels marked '25 Pf.' occupy all four corners within ruled rectangular frames. |
| Reverse lettering | Vor Sturmflut und Wassergefahr Herr Gott in Gnaden uns bewahr 25 Pf. |
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Hoyer — known today as Højer — sits in what is now southern Denmark, but in 1920 it was still administratively German, caught in the plebiscite period following the Treaty of Versailles. The borderland uncertainty of that moment is precisely why this Notgeld exists: the German mark was under pressure, small change had evaporated, and municipalities across the former German frontier zones were left to paper over the gap themselves.
A print run of over twelve million pieces for a town of a few thousand inhabitants is remarkable — almost certainly reflecting regional distribution well beyond Hoyer itself. L. Thaysen's involvement connects the design to local Schleswig artistic networks active during the plebiscite years.