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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Mölln (City of Mölln) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light blue ground with a bold red and black dashed border frame. The header carries the large yellow Gothic lettering "Gutschein der Stadt Mölln i. Lbg." on a dark band. A central vignette presents a colour lithograph of the Mölln townscape with the distinctive St. Nicolai church tower rising above clustered red-roofed buildings and foliage. Flanking the vignette are two black-bordered panels, each bearing the denomination "25 PFENNIG" in large yellow numerals, with redemption text at lower left and validity text at lower right, both over two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Mölln i. Lbg. 25 PFENNIG Dieser Schein wird v. d. Stadtkasse zu Mölln i. Lbg. eingelöst Der Magistrat: Er verliert seine Gültigkeit mit dem 31. Dezember 1921 Das Stadtverordnetenkollegium: |
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Mölln's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the densely produced wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany during the postwar coin shortage. What distinguishes Mölln's series is the town's insistence on leaning into its association with Till Eulenspiegel — the medieval trickster figure who, according to legend, died in Mölln in 1350 and whose gravestone the town still maintains. Local Notgeld issuers across Germany treated these small notes as collectible souvenirs as much as functional currency, and Mölln was shrewder than most about exploiting that market.
Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck handled a substantial volume of Schleswig-Holstein municipal Notgeld during this period, printing for numerous nearby towns simultaneously.