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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amtsbezirk Koberg (Herzogtum Lauenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned Notgeld coupon printed in dark blue and green, with a simple ruled border framing the text layout. Two symmetrical vignettes of stylized hop cones with curling tendrils flank the large central denomination numeral '25' printed in green with a yellow underprint, below which 'PFENNIG' appears in bold letterpress. The issuing authority 'AMTSBEZIRK KOBERG / HERZOGTUM LAUENBURG' is set across the top in contrasting typefaces, with validity clause 'GÜLTIG IM AMTSBEZIRK KOBERG' in green along the lower register. A manuscript serial number and three facsimile committee signatures appear at the foot, above the printer's imprint 'GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 Wallberg bei Koberg |
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Koberg was a tiny rural administrative district in the Duchy of Lauenburg, absorbed into Prussia in 1876 — by 1921, it was among hundreds of small German municipalities issuing Notgeld simply because the central government could not keep pace with postwar small-change demand. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a substantial volume of this municipal emergency currency and brought consistent lithographic quality to what were often otherwise forgettable local issues.
The Herzogtum Lauenburg reference on such notes is an anachronism — the duchy had ceased to exist as a political entity decades earlier, but local identity died slowly.