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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Nöschenrode |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-grey note printed in dark blue ink throughout, set within a decorative ruled border with corner ornaments. The upper-left carries the issuer name 'Nöschenröder Notgeld' in blackletter script, while the large numeral '25' dominates the centre, surmounted by the denomination 'Pfennige' in bold gothic lettering. To the right, a rhyming verse in Low German dialect occupies a text panel; the issue date 'Meschenroe, an'n 1. April 1921' appears at lower left, with two facsimile manuscript signatures below the printed designations 'De Schulze' and 'De Schöppe'. The printer's credit and the name of the manufacturer 'Klischéefabrik HA-GRA, Wernigerode' are printed in small type along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large pastoral silhouette vignette executed in the Scherenschnitt (paper-cut) style after a design by Maria Alde, printed in dark blue on a light blue-grey ground. The scene shows a standing herdsman with a staff beside two cattle grazing beneath a tree, rendered entirely in solid silhouette with fine hatching details. A Low German dialect verse occupies the left portion of the field in blackletter script, and a small heraldic shield with horizontal barry lines appears at lower right. The artist's credit 'Scherenschnitt von Maria Alde.' is printed in italic script along the lower margin. |
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Nöschenrode was a small commune in the Harz district, and by 1921 it was doing exactly what thousands of German municipalities were doing: printing its own emergency money because the Reichsbank simply could not produce coin fast enough to meet demand. This particular Kleingeldschein was printed locally by Schaffhäuser & Claus in nearby Wernigerode, which was the practical choice — small issuers rarely went further afield when a competent regional printer was available.
The two signatories represent the issuing authority's senior officials, their names noted parenthetically alongside their titles — a bureaucratic formality common to Harz-region Notgeld of this period.