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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hohenwestedt, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue ornamental border with Iron Cross corner motifs frames the note. Central laurel wreath vignette surrounds the denomination numeral '25 PFENNIG'; date 'HOHENWESTEDT, 3. JULI 1921' and two manuscript signatures appear below. |
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| Signature(s) | Diedrich Jensen and Hans Martens |
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Hohenwestedt is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept German municipalities in 1921 as postwar inflation eroded the usefulness of official coinage. Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a substantial volume of municipal emergency money during this period, often producing short runs for towns too small to negotiate with the major Leipzig or Berlin printers.
The two signatories — Diedrich Jensen and Hans Martens — were almost certainly local officials rather than bank officers, which is characteristic of municipal rather than savings-bank notgeld issues. The DeNG catalog suffix "b" indicates a recognized variant within the 0622 sequence, likely distinguished by a minor typographic or color difference from the "a" type.