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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vienenburg (Municipality of Vienenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Buchdruckerei Adolf Sieburg, Vienenburg, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Two-colour letterpress vignette in black and red-pink on cream stock. At upper left, a full-length figure of a miner in period uniform stands holding a lamp in one hand and a long tool in the other. To the right, a red-tinted industrial landscape vignette depicts a potash mine (Kaliwerk) with a winding tower, chimney stacks emitting smoke, and a foreground of ore or salt blocks, all rendered in a woodcut-style illustrative manner. The place name "Vienenburg a.h." and denomination "25 Pfg." appear in bold Gothic lettering above the scene, while the mine name "Kalisalz 'Gott erhalts'" is inscribed in the lower banner in red. |
| Reverse lettering | Vienenburg a.h. 25 Pfg. Kalisalz "Gott erhalts" |
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Vienenburg is a small railway junction town in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coins — a problem that had worsened steadily since the war years and was becoming acute as inflation began accelerating. The Sieburg print shop was a local operation, and the note was produced entirely within the town that issued it, which was not always the case with municipal Notgeld of this period.
Collector demand for German Notgeld was already being cynically exploited by 1921, with some municipalities printing far beyond circulation needs specifically to sell to hobbyists.