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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Appen (Municipality of Appen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | Red and blue letterpress reverse with a bold Gothic blackletter heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen' across the top within a red-ruled panel, and denomination cartouches reading '25 Pfg.' in red on black grounds at the left and right margins. The upper central field carries six lines of the regional patriotic verse from the Schleswig-Holstein Lied in Gothic script set against a red ground. Below, a horizontal landscape vignette in blue and black renders a dense stand of trees — likely oak — in a stylised woodcut manner against an open sky. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen 25 Pfg. Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen Deutsche Sitte hohe Wacht Wahre treu was schwer errungen Bis ein schön'rer Morgen tagt! Schleswig-Holstein stammverwandt Wanke nicht mein Vaterland! |
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Appen is a small municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German towns and villages in the early 1920s as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation entirely. By 1921 the Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying adequate coinage, forcing even minor rural communities to commission their own emergency issues. Konrad Hanf in Hamburg printed for numerous such municipalities across the Hamburg region, producing short runs that were often as much a local fundraising tool as a genuine monetary stopgap.
The DeNG 1/2#39.2 designation indicates this is the second variant of the series, suggesting Appen returned for a second printing run.