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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Scheeßel (Municipality of Scheeßel) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a central vignette of two women in traditional Low German folk costume flanking the municipal coat of arms of Scheeßel, a shield divided with brown lozenges on a yellow field, surmounted by a dove on a platter. Two banner scrolls above bear Low German dialect verses, and the denomination '25' appears in bold numerals at left and right with a Pfennig symbol. A text scroll at the bottom names the Sparkasse Scheeßel as the redeeming institution, dated Scheeßel, 6. Jan. 1921, with two facsimile signatures for the Gemeindevorst and Die Direktion; a series letter 'C' appears at lower left, and the printer's imprint 'Druck C. A. Nicolaus, Bremen' is noted at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the place name 'Scheeßel' in large Gothic script as the central heading, above an oval vignette framed by a decorative garland border of stylised leaves in green and yellow, enclosing a pastoral view of a church steeple amid trees with a timber structure in the foreground. The denomination '25' with Pfennig symbol appears in yellow cartouches at lower left and right, and Low German dialect texts flank the central vignette. Along the lower margin, a humorous folk frieze depicts a pig-herder with pigs and cattle, referencing local agricultural life. |
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Scheeßel is a small municipality in Lower Saxony, and its 1921 notgeld issue is entirely typical of the inflationary small-change crisis that flooded Germany with thousands of locally printed emergency pieces between 1918 and 1922. The printer, C. A. Nicolaus of Bremen, handled notgeld contracts for numerous small northern German communities during this period — their name turns up repeatedly across Lower Saxon municipal issues.
The DeNG reference places this firmly within the catalogued notgeld corpus, but the series depth at 1174.1 suggests a well-documented emission rather than a rare outlier.