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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Buxtehude (City of Buxtehude) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels with a yellow-gold guilloche underprint throughout. The left and right panels each bear the large numeral '25' above the word 'Pfennig' in bold gothic lettering, with 'GUT-SCHEIN' to the upper left and 'DER STADT' to the upper right. The central vignette presents a detailed line-art view of the Buxtehude Rathaus (town hall, noted as built 1912–14), flanked by a four-line German verse. The lower margin carries the city name 'BUXTEHUDE' in large block letters, with manuscript signatures of the Magistrat and Bürgervorsteher alongside the validity date '1. Okt. 1921'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Weiland-Magister-Halepaghen hat viel für uns zusammen-fragen Drum sei auch geiner hier gedacht Obs ihm mal einer noch nach-macht Weiland - Magister - Gerhard - Halepaghen gest. 5. April 1485 Gutschein der Stadt Buxtehude HALEPAGHENSCHE STIFTUNG IN BUXTEHUDE DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER. |
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Buxtehude's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point a well-organized commercial enterprise as much as a genuine liquidity measure. Gebrüder Jänecke of Hannover were a serious printing house with deep roots in chromolithography, and their municipal Notgeld work from this period is generally cleaner than the rushed output of smaller regional printers.
The 25 Pfennig denomination was the workhorse of small-town Notgeld, sized to fill the gap left by hoarded Reichsmünzen coinage. Buxtehude, an old Hanseatic town on the Este river southwest of Hamburg, issued collector-oriented series during this period knowing full well that philatelic demand was subsidizing local finances.