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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Leck (Municipality of Leck) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Leck, a quartered shield in blue and red with heraldic charges including a crown, an eagle, and a cross, supported by a lion rampant and surmounted by a white eagle displayed, all rendered in a bold folk-art style with blue and orange colouring. Arching across the centre in ornate blue Gothic script is the legend 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Leck', flanked at upper left and right by the denomination '25 Pfg.' in decorative cartouches. Below, an invalidation clause and the facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (municipal mayor) appear in black letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 De Dänen harrn uns bannig leer doch unser Leck is tru dütsch verblev! |
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Leck is a small town in Schleswig, the contested border region that had only just returned a German majority vote in the 1920 plebiscite following the post-WWI partition. This 25 Pfennig note is Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued during the Reichsmark's inflationary spiral, when small coin virtually disappeared from circulation. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own during this period, but Schleswig issues carry an extra layer of political edge: local identity assertion was never purely economic in a region where German and Danish affiliation had been a live dispute for generations.
The DeNG reference places this within the standard 1921 small-denomination series for Leck.