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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neidenburg (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Hartung, Hamburg |
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| Obverse lettering | Neidenburg-Ostpreußen 19 Notgeld 21 25 :DER MAGISTRAT: DIESER SCHEIN WIRD UNGÜLTIG VIERZEHN TAGE NACH ÖFFENTL. BEKANNTMACHUNG. DIE EINLÖSUNG ERFOLGT BIS ZU DIESEM ZEITPUNKT BEI DER STADTKASSE / NOV. 21 DRUCK: HARTUNG, HAMBG. ENTW. ARCHITEKT: HANS PHILIPP |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark red and salmon-red on the same cream paper. A large blackletter inscription 'Fünf-und-zwanzig ℘' runs across the top beneath a horizontal line underprint. The central vignette presents a letterpress view of the medieval Neidenburg castle, a sturdy red-brick Gothic structure with a prominent tower, set amid trees and shrubbery. Denomination numerals '25' appear at the lower left and lower right flanking six-pointed star ornaments, and a caption below the vignette reads 'DIE NEIDENBURG / ERBAUT IM XIV. JAHRHUNDERT'. |
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Neidenburg — now Nidzica in northern Poland — was a small East Prussian town whose municipal government, like hundreds of others, turned to local Notgeld issues when small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation after the First World War. The Hamburg printing firm Hartung handled a significant volume of this municipal emergency paper during the early 1920s, and the involvement of Hans Philipp, an architect by training, in the design is not unusual for the period — Notgeld commissions were routinely handed to local artists and professionals rather than professional engravers.
The 1921 dating places this issue in the second wave of Notgeld production, by which point many municipalities were printing collectible series rather than responding to a genuine currency shortage.