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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bönningstedt, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue of the Gemeinde Bönningstedt (Com. Amtsbezirk Pinneberg), with a central octagonal vignette displaying a heraldic lion passant in black on a light ground, flanked on both sides by the denomination '50 Pf' in large Gothic numerals within ornamental borders. A red overprinted serial number appears at centre, and the lower portion carries a Gothic-script text stating that the note loses validity two weeks after announcement in the Pinneberger Tageblatt and Lockstedter Anzeiger, with a manuscript signature of the communal authority. The printer's imprint 'KONRAD HANF · HAMBURG' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey tones with large '25' numerals in each lower corner and the word 'Pfennige' beneath each, while 'fünfundzwanzig' runs across the upper corners. The central vignette, rendered in a naive folk-art line style, shows a seated man hunched over a table apparently eating, evoking a scene of wartime hardship. Below the vignette a Low German dialect verse is printed in black letterpress. |
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Bönningstedt is a small village northwest of Hamburg — in 1921 it had perhaps a few hundred residents, which makes the existence of a municipal emergency note here entirely characteristic of the Notgeld period, when even the smallest German communes issued their own scrip to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the Weimar economy after the war. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg printer who handled a substantial volume of regional Notgeld work during this period, servicing dozens of northern German municipalities.
The Grabowski reference 133.1a-2/6 places this within a numbered series, suggesting Bönningstedt issued multiple values or variants.