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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stotel (Municipality of Stotel) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely occupied by a large multicolour lithographic vignette in an expressionist style, rendered in tones of red, blue, green, and yellow, depicting a scene of figures in period dress — soldiers, a woman in traditional costume, and civilian men — gathered on a hillside beneath a billowing flag in the national colours. Below the vignette, a two-line inscription in decorative red Gothic lettering on a cream ground completes the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | Sie halfen bis zum ärmsten Knecht Zu Wagen Jedermann zum Recht |
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Stotel is a small village in Lower Saxony, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the so-called "Seriennotgeld" phase, when many communities issued decorative small-denomination paper primarily to sell to collectors rather than meet any genuine monetary shortage. C. A. Nicolaus of Bremen was a regional commercial printer handling multiple such commissions across northwest Germany during this period.
Whether Stotel's issue saw meaningful local circulation or went straight into collector packets is the real question with notes like this.