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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtverordnetenkollegium Burg auf Fehmarn |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | J. C. König & Ebhardt, Hannover, Germany (1845-1999) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennig 25 Giltig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis auf Widerruf dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung im Fehmarnschen Tageblatt bei der Stadtkasse eingelöst wird Burg auf Fehmarn Das Stadtverordnetenkollegium J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover |
| Reverse description | Printed in a bold black silhouette style on a pale ground with a solid black upper and lower border, the reverse carries a dramatic vignette titled 'Nerthus-Sage' — a scene from Germanic mythology in which the earth goddess Nerthus, rendered as a tall silhouetted figure standing on a wheeled cart, is drawn by an ox across a radiating-ray background with two birds in flight. The artist's monogram 'whu-brandt' appears at lower right within the vignette. A Low German explanatory legend in Fraktur script runs across the full width of the lower panel. |
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Burg auf Fehmarn is the principal town on Fehmarn, a Baltic island that had been connected to the German mainland only by ferry until the 20th century. This note was issued by the town council (Stadtverordnetenkollegium) during the early Weimar-era Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage that pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own emergency currency as inflationary pressure began eroding confidence in the Reichsmark. J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover, a long-established commercial printer, handled a significant volume of this municipal notgeld work across northern Germany.
Fehmarn's island status gave local scrip a practical grip: islanders had limited options for obtaining change from elsewhere.