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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Suchsdorf, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette shows a farmer standing amid a golden wheat field, with a rural village and treeline visible in the background. Wheat sheaves flank the vignette on both sides, with the denomination '25 PF.' printed in bold on the left and right margins within a decorative border of geometric and floral ornaments in red, blue, and black. A serial number appears beneath the vignette, with the validity inscription and the community leader's manuscript signature below. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD SUCHSDORF 25 Pf. WIR WOLLEN KEINE DÄNEN SEIN WIR WOLLEN DEUTSCHE BLEIBEN. (Translation: Notgeld Suchsdorf 25 Pf. WE DON'T WANT TO BE DANES WE WANT TO REMAIN GERMAN.) |
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Suchsdorf was a small village near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued Notgeld to alleviate the chronic small-change shortage that plagued postwar Germany. The series reference suggests at least eight varieties within this denomination — typical for the collector-oriented Notgeld boom of 1921, when municipalities often printed multiple designs specifically to encourage buying in sets rather than spending individual notes.
Whether any of these saw genuine circulation or went straight from printer to collector envelopes is the real question with issues of this type.