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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Heeßen (Municipality of Heeßen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | HEESSEN bei Bad Eilsen aner Awe Erste Wirkungsstätte des Wunder-Doktors Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. April 1921 Heeßen b. Bad Eilsen den 1. Januar 1921 · Der Gemeindevorsteher: Meier ENTW. RUDOLF HILLEBRECHT |
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| Signature(s) | Meier |
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Heeßen is a small village in the Weser Uplands, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921 it issued its own Notgeld to plug the chronic small-change shortage that had persisted since the war. What makes this series worth attention is the printer and designer pairing: Edler & Krische in Hanover were among the more design-conscious Notgeld producers, and Rudolf Hillebrecht — later a significant figure in postwar German urban planning — was at this stage of his career producing graphic work for exactly these kinds of regional commissions.
The single authorizing signature belongs to a local official recorded only as Meier, which is about as much administrative apparatus as a village of this size could muster.