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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hachenburg (City of Hachenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold geometric border design in red and yellow, composed of repeating diamond and chevron motifs surrounding a central white vignette. Within the vignette, a detailed black letterpress illustration depicts the Marktbrunnen (market fountain) of Hachenburg, an ornate cast-iron fountain with a figural finial atop a tall column rising from a wide basin with scrolled supports. Above the vignette, the inscription 'MARKTBRUNNEN ZU HACHENBURG' is printed in two lines, and the denomination '25 Pf. 25' appears both at the top and bottom of the note. The printer's imprint 'G. Hunckel, Bremen' is visible in small type at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Pf. 25 MARKTBRUNNEN ZU HACHENBURG 25 Pf. 25 G. Hunckel, Bremen |
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Hachenburg is a small town in the Westerwald, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld to plug the chronic small-change shortage that followed the war. The Reichsbank's coin output had collapsed, and local authorities were legally permitted — even encouraged — to fill the gap. G. Hunckel of Bremen supplied a number of these municipal issues, operating as a regional printer for Notgeld contracts across northwestern Germany during the early 1920s inflation period.
Hachenburg's series is not among the more elaborately produced Notgeld issues of the period, which actually worked against its survival — collectors of the era favored decorative multi-color sets, leaving plainer issues less systematically preserved.