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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bullenkuhlen (Municipality of Bullenkuhlen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note with a blue rectangular border enclosing the design, printed in red and black. The issuer name BULLENKUHLEN appears in bold black capitals across the top, preceded by NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE; the denomination 25 PF is printed in stylised red numerals at upper left and upper right. A large red heraldic shield bearing a white multi-pointed star charge occupies the centre, flanked on each side by the blue inscription AMTSBEZIRK BEVERN. A red stamped serial number appears at lower right, and the validity clause DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 31. DEZBR. 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT runs across the lower portion, accompanied by two manuscript signatures for Der Amtsausschuß and Der Amtsvorsteher. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 PF |
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Bullenkuhlen is a village in Schleswig-Holstein that, at the time of issue, had a population small enough to count by hand — almost certainly in the low hundreds. That a municipality this size issued its own notgeld is less surprising than it sounds; the 1921 wave of German small-change emergency money was driven as much by local pride and the collector trade as by genuine coin shortages. Many rural communes issued series specifically to sell to notgeld collectors, generating modest revenue with almost no notes ever entering actual circulation.
The DeNG 2#206.2 reference places this in the second main catalogue of German notgeld, confirming it as a documented but uncommon rural issue.