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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Visselhövede, Town of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Green-toned reverse divided into four vignette panels: upper left shows a large factory complex representing the local match industry, with a box labelled 'DEUTSCHE HÖLZER' in the foreground; upper right depicts a long timber or agricultural shed set before a wooded landscape. The central lower vignette presents a prize sow standing before a barn, captioned 'Sau 1030 Gen. Visselhövede', with denomination medallions '25 PFENNIG' in black on grey panels at lower left and right. A central scroll carries two rhyming verses in German extolling the local matchstick industry and heathland honey, signed 'Fritz Thorner'. A ribbon banner at the base bears a prose caption on local pig breeding, with the printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | Ein Licht nur dann erst leuchten kann, Zündet man's mit dem Streichholz an. Gross ist in uns'rem Orte die 'Rietsticken'-Streichholz-Industrie. Berühmt der Heidehonig ist, Drum eßt ihn nur zu jeder Frist. Weil er verwandelt sich in Blut, Bekommt er allen Kranken gut. DEUTSCHE HÖLZER Sau 1030 Gen. Visselhövede Das hiesige Notgeld trägt zur Schau ein Zuchtschwein, eine Siegessau. Die Schweinezucht im Heidjerland ist rühmlich weit und breit bekannt. 25 PFENNIG GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, DRUCK U. VERLAGSHAUS, HANNOVER. |
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Visselhövede is a small market town in Lower Saxony, and this 25 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz emergency — the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany after the First World War. Municipal and commercial issuers across the country printed their own Notgeld precisely because Reichsbank coins had been hoarded or melted, and the central government was in no position to plug the gap quickly. Thousands of towns did exactly this.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was a well-established regional printer with a long history in commercial and cartographic work, and handled Notgeld contracts for numerous Lower Saxon municipalities during this period.